1 KG OF SOIL, BY AMER AKEL

Installation show in Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna) 2015, in collaboration with Allartnow.

"What if the only remaining thing from Home is a few letters ... memories ...and a handful of soil....."

I didn't realise that obtaining handful Soil of Syria would be such a difficult mission. After numerous attempts that lasted a month and with some assistance from my friends I have managed to get 1kg of soil in order to achieve this project. It was a post journey from Damascus to Vienna... via Beirut...once I have received the postage and when I touched the soil I instantly had a strange feeling ...This is where the question of ' what is home?' has badly urged me (Amer Akel).

Amer Akel's website.