HOME1947: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy explored the lives and stories of the millions displaced in 1947 during the creation of two new independent nation-states, India and Pakistan. The installation crafted visual memories through a series of short documentary and narrative films, virtual reality, photographs and oral histories, objects and archival documents, and sound installations—recreating the long-lost sights, sounds, and smells of what millions once called home.

Born in Karachi, Pakistani Canadian filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy recalled grasping the human dimension of a painful historical chapter through her grandparents' stories "about childhood homes they left behind, the smell of the earth when it rained, the fragrance of jasmine in the spring, the friendships they longed to rekindle, the mango trees under which they played." Recreating the feelings of loss and longing, Obaid Chinoy stated, "HOME1947 is my ode to that generation."

Initially commissioned for showcase at the Manchester International Festival in 2017 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Partition, the exhibition subsequently toured to Lahore and Karachi. The Guardian described the exhibition in 2017 as “an uncompromising look at lives wrecked by the Partition.” In 2007, ten years before creating HOME1947, Obaid Chinoy helped form The Citizens Archive of Pakistan to initiate the compilation of oral histories on the Partition. She updated the exhibition for its North American debut at Oklahoma Contemporary with two additional films she is directed and produced through her Karachi-based studio SOC Films and with additional material she selected with Noor Ahmed of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan.