Ka Yan So’s collaborative installation explores the intimate rituals and gestures that shape our sense of ‘home’, particularly within diasporic and multilingual communities. Developed with thirteen collaborators from East and Southeast Asian backgrounds, the work gathers stories, images, handwritten scripts, and symbolic materials to reflect on migration, memory and the evolving meanings of ‘home’.  

Developed through a series of intimate community gatherings, shared meals, and conversations with collaborators from diverse diasporic backgrounds, the project brings together personal responses to questions such as “What is ‘home’ to you?” and “What would you take with you if you had to leave?” 

These responses—expressed through text, photography, drawing, sculpture, and found objects—form an immersive environment that is both domestic and collective, constantly shifting through audience interaction. The installation blends carefully arranged everyday materials with hand-written question cards, textiles and collaborative contributions, inviting visitors not just to observe but to participate, respond, and reflect. 

Ka Yan’s quiet gestures of care—attentively listening to, documenting, and interpreting her collaborators’ stories behind their works—manifest in an artist book and the spatial installation. She foregrounds the emotional weight of displacement, the complexity of family bonds, and the multiplicity of cultural identity. Rather than offering fixed answers, Where do the stars land honors the diverse, often fragmented experiences that form diasporic life, offering a tender space for belonging. 

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Words by HOME 25: Invisible Cities curator Miriam La Rosa.