Home Is Not a Place

13 February, 2026
26 March, 2026

Émilie Dubois

A Guatemalan artist based in the UAE, is the Art Educator and Curatorial Liaison at the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation in Abu Dhabi. Specializing in mixed media, she explores identity and cultural heritage while mentoring young talent. Through her role, Emilie inspires students to engage with art and fosters a creative, inclusive community at the foundation.

Home Is Not a Place explores the emotional landscape of living between worlds, reflecting on belonging beyond geography. Through abstract mixed-media works and immersive spatial storytelling, the exhibition examines what we leave behind, what we carry with us, and how we continuously reconstruct ourselves across distance and time. Layered surfaces, fragmented forms, and gestural marks evoke universal emotions such as nostalgia, longing, and hope, offering an intimate reflection on transition and becoming.


At the heart of the exhibition is a hand-painted living room installation, an immersive and interactive space that invites visitors to step inside a literal painting. Every surface, including walls, furniture, floors, and frames, is transformed through expressive brushstrokes, dissolving the boundary between artwork and environment. This three-dimensional intervention extends the exhibition beyond the canvas, reinforcing the central idea that home is not a fixed place, but something shaped, inhabited, and rebuilt.


Home Is Not a Place embraces soft storytelling and emotional resonance. The exhibition stands as a tribute to those who left with courage or necessity and continue, every day, to redefine what home means, not as a place, but as a feeling carried within.


Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
The Pieces I Carry
2025
20 x 20 cm each
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
The Pieces I Carry
2025
20 x 20 cm each
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
The Pieces I Carry
2025
20 x 20 cm each
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
Gathered into One
2025
60 x 80 cm each (set of 9)
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
Airport Tears
2025
90 x 180 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
Your Night, My Day, My Night, Your Day I
2025
90 x 60 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
Beyond Home
2025
120 x 120 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
Between Here and There
2025
180 x 90 cm each (set of 3)
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist
Émilie Dubois, (Guatemala, 1995)
Under the Same Sky
2025
200 x 150 cm
Mixed media on canvas
Courtesy of the artist

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