Nicole Khadivi – After Home
What happens to a home when the ground it stands on changes? In After Home, Nicole Khadivi, recipient of Uppsala Municipality’s Studio Grant, invites the visitor into a hypnotic and shifting installation about memory, migration, and the human longing for belonging.
Exhibition period: September 13 – November 2, 2025
Admission: Free
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The exhibition takes its starting point in two cities that have been fundamentally transformed – Mahmutlar in Turkey and Poggioreale in Italy. Mahmutlar has shifted from being a farming village on the Alanya coast to becoming a meeting place for families in the diaspora, but also a site of speculation and rapid exploitation. The city’s concrete skeletons stand as symbols of this state of transit. Are they being built up or dismantled? Poggioreale was abandoned after an earthquake in 1968 and later rebuilt in a new location – while the old town remains as a ghost city, frozen in time.
In both cities, people carry experiences of loss, transition, and broken dreams. The exhibition explores states of homelessness and homesickness – rupture, fragments of memory, pioneering spirit, and capitalized dreams. What does it mean to create a home? Is it something that can be remade endlessly?
About Nicole Khadivi
Nicole Khadivi received her master’s degree from the Royal Institute of Art in 2024. She often works with installations and film, combining personal narratives with a documentary visual language. Her works revolve around questions of belonging, loss, and how we remember – both as individuals and as societies. The exhibition After Home is part of Uppsala Municipality’s Studio Grant 2024/25, which includes a free studio at Hospitalet in Ulleråker.