A Sense of Home
A Sense of Home brings together the work of three Sudanese artists who found refuge in Kilifi during the outbreak of war in their homeland. Through photography, mixed media, and experimental forms, the exhibition reflects on displacement, memory, identity, and the slow process of renewal.
Kilifi became a landscape that offered calmness, a space to reflect and a sanctuary. This exhibition presents photographs and short films that move between rupture and quietness. Some works respond directly to war; others dwell in observation, and a sense of belonging. Together, they ask what it means to carry home within you.
Presented first at Beneath the Baobabs Festival, and later at The Food Movement, A Sense of Home marks the beginning of Green Heart’s long-term vision for an Art Forest; a future ecological and sculptural space within its protected sanctuary in Kilifi. This exhibition begins Green Heart’s commitment to supporting artists.
About Green Heart
Green Heart is a creative and ecological sanctuary in Kilifi dedicated to supporting art, community, and environmental awareness. Through upcoming artist residencies, public programs, and place-based initiatives, Green Heart aims to foster meaningful connections between creativity, ecology, and everyday life.
About the Artists
Born on August 18, 1998, in Khartoum, Sudan, Aymen Mohamed is a multidisciplinary artist working across multimedia forms of expression and storytelling. His practice is deeply rooted in lived experience and shaped by Sudan’s recent history — from the December Revolution in 2018 to the military coup and the ongoing war.
For Aymen, history is not a distant past, but a living present shaped by human consciousness. This understanding drives his artistic research and visual explorations of memory, time, and continuity, guiding a body of work that reflects both personal witnessing and collective experience.
Tall Altinay is a Sudanese photographer who approaches photography as a practice of silent observation and contemplative seeing. His work focuses on overlooked visual elements — tree trunks, shadows, textures, and the quiet presence of everyday forms.
Rooted between Arab and African visual cultures, his images seek to distill the essence of things without noise or spectacle, offering a restrained and meditative way of engaging with the world.
Saad Eltinay is a Sudanese photographer based in Khartoum. A trained software engineer who graduated in 2018, Saad has been practicing photography since 2012, using it both as a refuge and as a tool for self-expression.
His observational approach is driven by an interest in emotion and memory, questioning how space and society interact as forces of change. His work documenting the Sudanese revolution has been recognised and showcased in several local and international exhibitions and publications.
