The Other Home (2024) is a large-scale textile installation that examines ideas of exile and migration. The artwork, composed of various vertical panels, addresses a range of emotions associated with homelessness and the process of developing new social ties and forms of belonging. By using fabric from different parts of the Middle East and South and Central Asia, she recomposes her own affective landscape and reflects the collective struggle to find a sense of home in ourselves and in the world. Hangama Amiri’s work is shaped by personal memories and her diasporic experience. In 1996, when Hangama was seven years old, her family fled Kabul, Afghanistan, and became refugees for almost a decade. Her practice, in part, amplifies the collective struggles for women’s rights in Afghanistan and other parts of the world. Stories of her homeland are thus present in her choice of materials, usually sourced from Afghan-owned shops in New York, which she uses to create textile collages by layering and pinning pieces of fabric and then sewing them together.