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OPEN CALL
01 – 30, MAY 2026

Thana Faroq

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

Yemen

There is a blue sky today and no rain

This project aims to explore the personal narratives and complex emotional landscapes of the lives of a small group of young women and girls living in exile here in the Netherlands. The work will reflect on our life journeys, and it will seek to project forward toward futures both the real and the imagined. Many of these women, including myself, are in phases of life where they are challenged to construct identities within new cultural contexts and geographies of power, as well as within their memories and the nostalgic representations of the past they possess. My goal is to explore our emotional interior landscape in the light of the changes that we go through. To explore them, describe them in vignettes of conversation, talk about them, and reveal them. In this process, I have come to a point of exhaustion and depression, a flat landscape. I aim to create an archive of memories of our emotions and the feelings that are often lost in histories of migration and displacement, including nostalgia, and not feeling much at all. This work responds to these questions: How do women in exile cope with their emotions in the process of constructing a new identity? How does the changed social and familial context lead to new ways of managing novel emotional experiences? How can we explore this complex interior emotional landscape in a visual way?

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