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Zarina, 'Dividing Line', 2001, woodcut printed in black on handmade Nepalese paper, mounted on Arches Cover white paper, 40.6 x 33cm, image; 65.4 x 50.2cm, sheet, edition 16/20 UCLA Grunwald Centre for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Graphic Arts. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer.

Huyssen noted that the artworks Letters from Home (1984), a stained terracotta and cast aluminium sculpture, Homes I Made/A Life in Nine Lines (1997), an etching on handmade Nepalese paper, and Home is Foreign Place (1999), a set of woodcuts with Urdu text on kozo paper, each speak about the concept of home, whether it is depicted in the form of maps, horizons, thresholds, borders or frontiers.

In particular, he suggested that Home is a Foreign Place speaks about exile. Exhibition curator Allegra Pesenti seems to agree with Huyssen. Speaking about this work in a video on the Hammer website, she says,

It's a work that represents a very difficult moment in Zarina's life, she made it shortly after she was being threatened to leave her home in New York, her working space, her life space.... What does the home mean for her?... When