A Home of One's Own

A Home of One’s Own brings forward the work of Mohamad Khayata and TaeHo Kang, two artists who transform lived experience into visual landscapes of belonging. Their artworks speak to the human need to anchor ourselves—to find meaning in movement, to hold onto memory, and to build a sense of home that reaches beyond geography. The exhibition unfolds as a meditation on how identity takes shape through everything we carry, everything we recall, and everything we continue to search for.

Khayata’s portraits offer an intimate view into moments of stillness shaped by migration and personal history. His monochromatic approach heightens the emotional clarity of each composition, allowing textures, fabrics, and subtle gestures to carry deep resonance. The recurring presence of the madeh—a quilt sewn from garments tied to family and memory—acts as a symbolic thread through the work. Domestic elements, layered surfaces, and the quiet grounding of the figure serve as points of continuity—objects and gestures that remain steady amid shifting circumstances. His artworks reflect a profound attentiveness to remembrance, honoring the emotional weight of journeys that continue to shape identity long after displacement.

Kang approaches the idea of place through abstracted urban forms and carefully arranged compositions that mirror the internal process of orientation and self-definition. His mixed-media works incorporate collage elements, overlapping planes, and spatial compression that evoke neighborhoods, pathways, and the familiar repetition of lived environments. Influences from modern art history, combined with his own migrations between cultures, inform his distinctive treatment of architecture as both metaphor and memory. These compositions mark the passage of experience, offering a grounded sense of structure within the evolving landscapes of contemporary life. Each work suggests a practice of locating oneself—a way of building personal meaning through observation, construction, and accumulated moments.

Together, Khayata and Kang create an exhibition that reflects on the many ways people locate themselves in the world. Their artworks form a quiet correspondence between memory and environment, between the homes we inherit and the ones we create through presence, resilience, and continuity. Material choices, visual rhythms, and repeated motifs reinforce the idea that home is not fixed—it is assembled, revised, and shaped across time.

A Home of One’s Own offers a contemplative look at the search for belonging—an exploration of how identity forms through the movement, distance, and grounding that define a life. The exhibition invites viewers to step into the expanded notion of home as both sanctuary and construction, as a place held internally and expressed outwardly through the spaces we imagine, build, and remember.

Since its establishment in 2018, Artplex Gallery has been a leader in showcasing high-quality, original contemporary art. Located in West Hollywood, the gallery specializes in presenting a diverse spectrum of international artists whose works challenge conventions and captivate the imagination.