This thesis takes the form of a curated exhibition accompanied by a critical essay, bringing together contemporary artists from Middle Eastern diasporas whose practices reflect on intergenerational inheritance, relationships to land, language loss and diasporic identity. Attending closely to the
ways language manifests in diasporic contexts, the works negotiate questions of belonging, inheritance, linguistic loss or adaptation and the emotional residues of displacement. Grounded in feminist and queer theoretical frameworks, this project examines how artists from Middle Eastern
diasporas navigate cultural hybridity and the complexities of self-construction in the West. Domestic spaces, everyday objects and embodied experience emerge as key themes through which the artists grapple with belonging and remembering, offering resonant reflections on diasporic life. This curatorial project emerges from both personal and academic research into what it means to create from and within a diasporic condition. By centring lived experience alongside critical theory, the exhibition positions curating as an act of storytelling, foregrounding vulnerability, care
and relationality.