The 13th edition of the Ras Al Khaimah Art Festival takes place at Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village from 31 January to 28 February 2025. As the emirate’s leading cultural event, it bridges past and present, fostering dialogue among artists, authors, and the community. Established in 2013 with 30 emerging artists, the festival has grown into a dynamic platform. The Festival’s 2025 theme, Memory, explores how personal and collective pasts shape identity. Featuring 200 local and international artists, the festival creates a space for reflection, healing, and connection, as artists translate their deepest recollections into visual form.

CACE/ZU Associate Professor and contemporary visual artist Dr. Ioannis Galanopoulos-Papavasileiou exhibits large-scale works from his series Home no Home (2019–present). The project examines the complexities of home and belonging in the expatriate experience. Using computational and digital techniques, such as Google Maps imagery and post-production interventions, it presents remote views of the artist’s hometown, Patras, Greece, exploring themes of memory, displacement and nostalgia. By using expanded photography as method, Home no Home moves beyond representation orthodoxy, creating cameraless images that resemble aerial photographs. Their fragmented, speculative qualities reflect the artist’s distant memories, using color and digital texture to evoke childhood recollections of place. In an era of migration and shifting identities, Home no Home invites viewers to reflect on their own connections to place and belonging. Through a mixture of personal and collective memory, the project resonates universally, encouraging dialogue on the evolving nature of home, place and memory and their intricate connection in a globalized world.