Elzahraa Jadallah, Firas Saadoon, Somaya El Sousi, Hussein Al-Dahir, and Wesam Almadani part of the ‘Home: Perspectives’ exhibition at the Preus Museum
Five writers, current or former ICORN residents in Cities of Refuge across the County of Vestfold, contributed to the exhibition ‘Home: Perspectives’ at the Preus Museum in Horten, which displays work by Ukrainian artists and photographers across generations. The exhibition opened on 24 February 2026, marking the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Hussein Al-Dahir, Wesam Almadani, Elzahraa Jadallah, Firas Saadoon, and Somaya El Sousi each contributed two poems to the exhibition, reflecting on the concept of home whether physical, mental, social, or cultural. Through both photography and poetry, the exhibition explores themes of belonging, displacement, identity, and resistance, as well as the experience of losing, searching for, or finding a new home.
On Sunday 10 May, the Preus Museum held an event in connection with the exhibition, where El Sousi, Saadoon, Jadallah, Almadani, and Al-Dahir read their poems while visitors moved through the museum and viewed the photographs.
The exhibition was arranged in memory of Kostiantyn Huzenko, a photographer who joined Ukraine’s Armed Forces in 2024 and was killed in action by a Russian missile. The original exhibition was commissioned during Eurofestival, held in Liverpool as part of the cultural programme of Eurovision 2023, hosted by the United Kingdom on behalf of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian artists participating in the exhibition are Vic Bakin, Igor Chekachkov, Alexander Chekmenev, Lia Dostlieva and Andrii Dostliev, Nazar Furyk, Kostiantyn Huzenko, Valeriy Miloserdov, Oksana Parafeniuk, Volodymyr Petrov, Serhii Polezhaka, Polina Polikarpova, Andrii Rachynskyi, Anton Shebetko, Yaroslav Solop, Daria Svertilova, Elena Subach, Anya Tsaruk, and Emine Ziyatdin.
The exhibition is curated by Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi.
You can find more information about the exhibition here.
