Displacement is at the core of Xavier Verhoest’s work. After the post-election violence in Kenya in 2007, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced within the country. The artist who is living in Kenya created works inspired by displaced people living in a land between memory and amnesia. Both a refuge and a prison, the series of sculptures entitled ‘La Maison des Autres’ reminds us of a lost place. It shows how the impossibility to meet others and the isolation caused by exclusion and stigmatization, it is a lost place where the silence of the collective memory becomes stronger than the individual memory. Xavier Verhoest’s personal journey to Palestine, to war zones or in Kenya with marginalized groups has resulted in works about geographical and emotional displacement.  His work does not invoke a particular sea or sky; it is the wider concept that a painting does not represent a place, but becomes an inner landscape, filled with memory and duration.