Two women in red and pink tobes sit facing each other on the sandy ground of a narrow lane between weathered brick walls. The image on the poster of Recoiling Memory of Home.

Recoiling Memory of Home

Exhibition Photography · Installation Hamburg, 2026

About the exhibition

This exhibition brings together my work and the work of Eythar Gubara. We are two Sudanese artists, and our friendship and creative dialogue began in Sudan and continue today in Germany.

Separated from our homeland yet connected by memory, we explore together what remains when a place becomes distant but never truly disappears. Through photography, film and visual storytelling, we revisit fragments of home: familiar voices, inherited stories, forgotten landscapes, and the intimate memories carried within the body.

The exhibition is not only about migration; it is also about belonging. It reflects on how identity is shaped by movement, how memories travel across borders, and how friendship can become a home in itself.

Drawing from our personal experiences as Sudanese women living in the diaspora, we create a space where past and present meet. Our works weave together stories of longing, resilience, love, loss and transformation, inviting viewers to reflect on their own connections to place, memory and community.

At its heart, the exhibition is a conversation between two artists whose journeys began in the same homeland and continue along different paths. Together we ask a simple yet profound question: what does it mean to carry home within us?

Through images and moving pictures, the exhibition becomes an archive of memory, a bridge between our lives in Sudan and in Germany.

From the exhibition

A visitor points at a photograph on the far wall while others look on.

The exhibition room at Künstlerhaus Sootbörn: visitors walk past photographs on the white walls, under long red cloths hanging from the ceiling.

Two visitors look at photographs on a white wall, between a hanging red scarf and a long dark cloth.

A man in a pink shirt and a woman in a beige jacket talk in front of a large photograph on the gallery wall.

A visitor in a wide-brimmed hat with a beaded band photographs one of the pictures on the wall with a phone.

Three people pose together in the exhibition room, in front of hanging striped cloths and photographs.

Live music during the exhibition: a man plays electric guitar on a small stage beside a woman in a red dress.