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A place ‘where you have to pass a neighbour’s window on your way to school’ (Ahlam Shibli) and where ‘you have to cross the Sahara desert for six to seven hours to travel abroad’ (Hazem Harb). A place where ‘the bullets, grenades and AK-7 rifle illustrations appear in a child’s math textbook’ (Khadim Ali) and where ‘US visas are not easily issued just because you are from here’ (Adel Abidin). Can we picture the daily routines and the art that emerges in such places? ‘gohyang: home’, which explores contemporary art of the Middle East with its complex social and historical background, is on show at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). It is the
