Home is a Foreign Place
Amanda Abi Khalil on exile
What does it mean to leave your home ground? Amanda Abi Khalil is no stranger to exile. As a curator from Lebanon who’s based in Brazil, she reflects on being torn between different places and inventing a new life.
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Zarina, Spinning House, 2013
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