The artists at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North map the grounding relationships and places they carry with them, which include intimate familial and chosen family connections, and the idea of homeland as a place of both comfort and loss.

6 artists in this exhibition

Hadassa Ngamba presents a work from her ‘Cerveau’ series, exhibited for the first time in the UK, which is based on cartographic enquiries into Congo’s history and psychological mapping of the terrains that exist within us. Richly layered, the surface is marked by paint and pigments from materials colonially extracted from Congo such as cobalt.

Mounira Al Solh presents works from her ongoing drawing and embroidery series ‘I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous’. The work from the Tate Collection, which includes three new drawings created for Liverpool Biennial 2025, records conversations Al Solh has had with displaced individuals, groups and families since 2012.

Further loans from the Tate Collection include works from Fred Wilson’s ‘Flag’ series, in which the designs of African and African diasporic countries’ flags are appropriated to create paintings drained of colour; Sheila Hicks’ ‘Grand Boules’ created using garments belonging to her friends and family and often referred to by the artist as ‘memory balls’; and Christine Sun Kim’s infographic drawings which each consider how sound operates in society, exploring the artist’s own relationship to spoken and signed languages, to her built and social environments, and to the world at large.

Further highlights include sculptural works by Cevdet Erek which measure the passing of time and relationships, photography and sculpture by Dawit L Petros and a new textile work by Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic.