18/06/2026
What does it mean to carry a homeland within the heart? 🤍
Shamsia Hassani’s Nowadays #05 is a quietly powerful reflection on exile, memory, and the fragile feeling of belonging to a homeland carried within the heart.
Her signature female walks barefoot past a city remembered in outline. A fractured line is held together with plasters. Dandelion seeds drift through uncertain air.
Through these delicate details, Shamsia Hassani gives visual form to displacement, repair, and inner resilience, creating one of her most affecting meditations on what it means to carry home within oneself. 🤍
Nowadays #05 can be viewed at GraffitiStreet Gallery in Chichester, with worldwide shipping available.
Read the full piece via the link below 👇
Shamsia Hassani’s Nowadays is a quietly powerful painting about exile, memory and the fragile feeling of belonging to a homeland carried within the heart. Through a barefoot female figure, a faint remembered city, a jagged line carefully mended with small plasters, and dandelion seeds drifting