Sondi, 11'42 min., 2022

Home 404 is a video installation that rethinks the concept of home and diasporic identity.

The work is a reconstruction of memories from Sondi’s home in Cameroon and is inspired by rituals that are embodied as masks inhabited by spirits. The installation is an imaginative and visual memoir of “home” suggesting it could be a non-space that is dynamic and in flux, constructed by history, language, culture, music, time, and, above all, memory. This fluidity of home and identity is emphasized by the constant movement of the digital landscape. Objects and spaces appear and disappear, transform and metamorphose, pointing to the fragmented and subjective nature of memories. The result is a virtual dreamscape that explores diasporic identities and memories that resound in the physical space, the digital space, and, suggests Sondi, the non-space—or the imaginative space in which the non-space exists. Home 404 creates in this way a hybridity that is filled with new modes of being, in which the imagination becomes a tool for liberation.

This work is presented as part of the exhibition Collective Practices of Care, curated by Erandy Vergara Vargas. The exhibition brings together four works by artists from Germany, the Netherlands and Canada, displayed on our windows and library from 15 June to 6 September 2026. The works offer a constructive reflection on a hostile world, as well as an exploration of acts of solidarity and practices of care aimed at building communities.

Projections from sunset to 2 am, on the window screens of the Goethe-Institut (1626 St-Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2T1). The works are also viewable on a screen in our library space during the Goethe-Institut’s opening hours: