In-person Arts & Culture

In Person Tour: The Home

Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm

Art Gallery of St. Albert
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Join the Art Gallery of St. Albert's curator for an in-depth tour of our current exhibition, learning about the artist's inspirations, creative process, and the stories that guide their incredible work.

The Home series has been evolving over the past three years, growing and unfolding toward its final chapter. In this last sequence, the houses gradually return to the ocean, each one finding its place amid waves that are not just water, but currents of culture, memory, and movement. These waves push and pull, question and challenge, asking the migrant: where do you belong? How can you connect with the past, with the future, and with yourself?

Here, in the meeting of these waves, a new horizon emerges. It is a horizon born from tension, from the collision of different worlds and experiences, a space where the migrant's understanding of home and life is renewed. The house resting on the boat becomes more than a structure—it becomes a vessel of reflection, resilience, and rediscovery.

The waves themselves take on new forms, layered and fluid, visual metaphors for dialogue, empathy, learning, and the weaving of meaning between cultures. And within this ebb and flow, there is a moment of balance—a standing wave—where movement slows, where chaos becomes calm, and where new insight emerges.

This is a series about journeys that ripple across oceans and cultures, about the invisible currents that move us, challenge us, and ultimately create spaces of belonging. Home is no longer just a place; it is a horizon, a perspective, a way of being in the world shaped by the meeting of waves, and by the courage to find equilibrium in their passage.

- Mohammad Hossein Abbasi, 2025


Art Gallery of St. Albert

19 Perron Street
St. Albert, AB, T8N 1E5


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