“Letters for Occasions” — Farah Al Qasimi Esker Foundation, Calgary, 29 January to 26 June 2022

or some of us, home cannot be understood as a specific place. In “Letters for Occasions,” Farah Al Qasimi’s photo-based installation, the artist looks at home in less spatial terms: home is joy, rest, family. Time collapses and expands through photographs that collage a global landscape of domestic interiors. In (2021), a photograph depicts shrimp and strawberries scattered across a thick, pale turquoise fabric, with a pink canopy bordering the bottom