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What does “home” mean for those whose physical, cultural, or emotional homes no longer exist, or provide safety or stability?

In the 1980s, 28 villages in the Bakota region of Ukraine were completely flooded by Soviet authorities to build a dam and a hydroelectric station. 3,729 households were forced to leave and watched their homes disappear beneath the rising water.

"How To Carry A Home" combines photography with found archives, including children’s papercraft and Soviet-era propaganda, many discovered in an abandoned kindergarten or from personal collections of Bakota residents.

It is about how meanings of home can be redefined and reconstructed in times of crisis, and how play can serve as a form of defiance and healing. As a guide to (re)building, "How to Carry A Home" reflects on how home is something you can always carry with you, wherever you are.