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In A Home That Never Was, Narges Mohammadi creates a large-scale architectural intervention composed of scattered fragments of a house: a doorway, a chicken shed, a stove, a couch, a kitchen window, and a sewing table. Arranged like an imaginary floor plan, these elements evoke the outline of a home that is both present and absent, a place that exists only in memory and imagination. The rotation of the structure breaks through the walls of the exhibition space, producing a surreal impression of a dwelling that might once have been, but never fully materialised.

The installation is built entirely from sand, a material chosen for its fragility and impermanence. The surfaces crumble over time, echoing the vulnerability of buildings in war zones, where a rocket can destroy a wall as easily as a hand can collapse these sculptures. Though rendered at life-size, the work does not reconstruct a functional space but instead stages an environment of dislocation, where fragments of memory and architecture blur together.

By inviting viewers to walk through this fragile floor plan, Mohammadi gives form to the dreamlike state in which she revisits her own memories and tries to piece together the shifting relationship between past and present. Within this environment, the installation also makes room for smaller alabaster objects—symbols of strength and hope that reappear throughout her practice.