We're seeking artists to participate in our curated spaces:
Home is a set of flavors and rituals that shape our individual and collective memory. The scent of a dish can transport us to distant places, bring back childhood memories, or even revive forgotten traditions. Food becomes a sensory bridge that connects us to landscapes, people, and stories that define our identity and that preserve memory, a site of negotiation where politics, economy, and culture intersect.
Eating is not just an act; it’s a ritual, a living archive where history, identity, and nourishment come together, carrying the personal and collective stories. We are looking for artists who use food as both material and metaphor, reflecting on how ingredients, recipes, and the acts of cooking and sharing shape who we are, where we come from, and how we envision home. From the kitchen as a keeper of ancestral knowledge to the plate as a map of emotions, these works may invite us to see home not as a fixed place but as something we carry with us and that is reimagined with every meal and every bite shared around the table.
In the wild, elephant herds form around grandmothers, daughters, and granddaughters. They roam across vast plains and dense forests, moving along age-old trails that seem to echo the paths of stars and planets overhead. Their home is not simply a point on a map but the living bond they share—kinship, collective memory, and the stories passed down through matriarchs across generations.
For us humans, especially those forced to leave their birthplace or watch their homes crumble to dust, “home” ceases to be about brick and mortar. Instead, it becomes the intangible threads of our lives: the whispered lullabies of our grandmothers, the dog-eared family photos tucked into suitcases, and the rituals we nurture through shared recipes or songs. Like these gentle giants, perhaps our truest sense of belonging resides in the connections we forge and carry wherever we go.
Where do we find home? What are its whispers and symbols? How do we define its boundaries? Is it the landscape of our birth, the sanctuary of our bodies, the pulse of our neighbourhoods, or the vast embrace of our countries? Where is home? What does it mean to us, from our bodies to our regions? Join as we reflect, create, and share a fragment of a collective understanding of "home."
5 artists will be selected by each space. Selected artists will be invited to exhibit in Platforms Project 9-12 October 2025. Spaces are subject to selection process
To apply, please submit your application below with a €10 fee via PayPal to postcardsfromhomenet@gmail.com by March 16th, 2025.
This invite is open to artists of Postcards from home community; you may join by an easy process that you find here
Selected artists will share in the space rental costs, with a maximum contribution of €100 each.
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