In conjunction with the virtual project Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home, artist Hamid Rahmanian spoke about his work with Mark Sloan. This conversation was held live on Facebook on Thursday, November 5, 6:00pm EST.

For more information and to visit the virtual exhibition, head to displacements.org.

Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home is a virtual project presented by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston. Visit it at www.displacements.org.

Dis/placements: Revisitations of Home features ten artists whose works deal with issues of displacement from their ancestral homeland in various capacities. The artists have been drawn from the exhibition history of the Halsey Institute. Each artist was asked to submit works that speak most directly to their reminiscences of home. Artists were paired with writers who have offered their own reflections on the work and its relationship to the concepts of home and displacement. When taken together, this collection of work provides an opportunity to consider the traits and aspects that are both similar and jarringly disparate–from Asia to Africa, to Europe and the Middle East.

Ideas of home have taken on new meaning in this fraught moment of pandemic. For many, home has become a place to cocoon where hours run into days, weeks, and months. For people less fortunate, home can represent insecurity and be charged with fear; and for those on the frontlines of COVID-19 it may be a place newly tenuous, frequented for momentary respite at best.

The project is funded in part by The Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation. This program is sponsored by South Carolina Humanities, a not for-profit organization; inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.