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In their artwork shown in the exhibition “Where ART you from?”, the artists Sara Nabil, Razan Sabbagh and Lara Ziyad take very different paths to approach questions of identity. Raza Sabbagh’s installation for instance tells of her everyday life in Germany and her memories of Syria, of contradictory feelings, and experiences such as stillness and war noise, security and fear, life and death. In her installation Lary Ziyad criticises the fact that identity is frequently defined exclusively by background and origin, and she accordingly shreds hundreds of copies of her passport. And in conclusion Sara Nabil invites visitors to lie down on the original mattress she used during the time she spent in the first collecting centre, and simultaneously to listen to a listing of the countless asylum application forms she had to wade through.
 
What makes identity what it is? What does it mean for artists from different backgrounds to arrive in Germany and find their feet here? How do individual life stories influence their art? During this talk the public is invited to join in a discussion with the artists about these and many other questions.