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you think about the title, 'Home is a Foreign Place', it represents so much of what Zarina's work is about. Home is a confused notion for her. She represented India at the Venice Biennale yet she doesn't have an Indian passport. Her family...lives in Pakistan but that country too is somewhat alien to her.
Huyssen then went on to talk about the work Dividing Line (2001), a woodcut print on handmade Nepalese paper that represents the delineated border that separates India from Pakistan, and references a period of turmoil 
news release about the exhibition,
....the border between India and Pakistan that was demarcated by the 1947 partition caused the displacement and death of millions of people, and eventually forced Zarina's family to leave their home in 1959.
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Zarina,'Home is a Foreign Place', 1999 portfolio of 36 woodcuts and letterpress, mounted on paper. Edition: 25. The Museum of Modern Art.
In each of the 36 woodcut prints that make up the artwork Home is a Foreign Place (1999), there is an inscription in Urdu, the language from Zarina's childhood. MoMA's website suggests that the use of a single-word inscription in Urdu