Engraver and sculptor, the Indian artist Zarina Hasmi creates an engraved and architectural cartography on wood which seems entirely dedicated to the search for this lost place to which she draws the map, alternating between global and local, physical or mental spaces, always with the resounding undulation of this Urdu word translated in her language. The feeling of loss is ever present when one contemplates the 36 engravings that compose the work entitled Home is a Foreign Place. "Born in Delhi, the artist spent her childhood in Aligarh. She spreads out hundreds of drawings that, like a scar, are repeatedly cut through by a line to the border between India and Pakistan (..) drawings that ressemble constellations, register the lethargic, viscously cloying time of an afternoon siesta spent in the slatted half-light of drawn blinds or join up musical sounds with the rhythmical records of heartbeats". (Doris van Drathen).

Extract from the catalogue published by the Gallery Jaeger Bucher on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition, entitled "Expansion - Résonance", from October 20, 2008 to January 17, 2009.