Amarte Fonds

IBB X Amarte: Back To Your Hood

Instituto Buena Bista (IBB), the contemporary art center in Curaçao, and the Amarte Fund introduce the open call for the art project Back to Your Hood. This open call is aimed at artists with roots in Curaçao, regardless of whether they currently reside in Curaçao or abroad.

One of our highlighted projects

Imagine Me Like a Country of Love

Thana Faroq
Thana Faroq received a grant for the development of Imagine Me Like a Country of Love, a short experimental film that delves into the emotional and physical landscapes of returning to a homeland irrevocably altered by time and war. The film portrays grief as a process of confronting both what has been lost and what has taken its place. Inspired by Thana’s return to Yemen after nearly a decade, the film examines the emotional and physical transformations of a homeland shaped by the passage of time and the impact of conflict.Thana is a Yemeni-born photographer, writer, and educator currently residing in the Netherlands. Her multidisciplinary work, which integrates photography, textual narratives, and moving images, examines transformative experiences that shape identity and belonging in Yemen and the Netherlands. Centered on themes of memory, migration, and intergenerational trauma, her work serves as a visual autobiography, highlighting women's resilience and the search for belonging in post-conflict contexts. Thana has received several prestigious honors, including the Open Society Foundation Fellowship Grant and the Arab Documentary Fund. She was recognized as "One to Watch" by the British Journal of Photography in 2020 and won the PhotoWien Photo Book Award in 2021 for her book I Don’t Recognize Me in the Shadows. Currently, she is a fellow in the inaugural ADPP fellowship program.
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The Amarte Foundation was founded by a number of individuals and their families who share a deep love for the arts. They wish to support the development of creatives and talent in arts and culture by providing financial means and where possible coaching, knowledge and experience. Artists and cultural institutions can apply at Amarte for the support of projects in the field of theatre, film, music, visual arts and literature, as well as interdisciplinary projects.