Reconstruction in Color Receives Support from het Cultuurfonds

Tara Haghi has been awarded a development grant by het Cultuurfonds in support of her ongoing painting series Reconstruction in Color.

Reconstruction in Color is Tara's central body of work — an ongoing series of paintings in acrylic and oil on canvas that examines the experience of migration through the language of color and urban architecture. Working from the streets of Enschede, Tara does not depict the city as it appears, but as it is felt: familiar facades rendered in heightened, non-naturalistic palettes that function as emotional maps of belonging, displacement, and the persistent question of what we mean when we say home.

The series has been in active development since 2024, with works including Veil, Stillness, Trace, Inward, Root, and Ariënsplein — each painting a distinct psychological portrait of a place, and together forming a cumulative record of re-rooting in a new country.

Het Cultuurfonds is one of the Netherlands' leading cultural funds, managing over 450 named cultural funds and supporting individual makers and collectives across disciplines. For an artist working at the intersection of migration, identity, and visual culture, this recognition marks a meaningful institutional endorsement of the work — and a commitment to seeing the series through to its next phase.

The development grant will support the continued production of new paintings within the series, with future exhibition and publication plans to be announced.

With thanks to voordekunst and het Cultuurfonds, made possible in part by the Fonds Versterking Culturele Sector Provincie Overijssel.