Build Me a Home – Ayat Ibrahim, Afnan Algharabli, Ajanaé Dawkins, Dedié adissem, Elaff Houmsse, Ashley Martin, Ky Smiley, & Nine Wells

What does it mean to have no desire for the past - to inherit a history where nostalgia has no place? To look back and find only fragments, absence, and silence. Build Me a Home begins in that absence, and from it, shapes a sanctuary. A place for all the things we never got to be, to have, to live. Through the lens of Afro-Nostalgia, we reimagine Brown and Black histories not as wounds to reopen, but as futures to rebuild – where tenderness is abundant, childhood is protected, and laughter drifts like warm wind through the night sky. This exhibition is an act of reclamation and invention, asking us to dream of homes that have never existed.