Exile is a multifaceted experience that disrupts individuals’ lives and established notions of belonging, challenging people’s sense of identity and attachment to place. Anthropologists have increasingly turned their attention to understanding the complex ways in which individuals and communities navigate exile, seeking to unravel the intricate processes of adaptation, resilience, and re-signification that emerge in response to displacement. This paper is based on my current postdoctoral research on the homemaking practices of members of a Turkish religious community in Belgium and the Netherlands. It focuses on a group of women who fled their homeland after the failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, when they (and/or their husbands) became targets of political persecution and settled with their families in Flanders. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted through participant observation in sohbets (weekly meetings that combine Islamic studies and sociability) and painting classes, this study analyses the role of sensory experiences and creative activity in both shaping memories of the home left behind and making a home in the here and now. In this research context, painting plays a major role in articulating, re-signifying, and reclaiming narratives of displacement, since it serves as a medium through which my interlocutors make sense of emotions and articulate complex feelings. Home becomes possible through practices of sociability in which the senses and aesthetic perceptions come together in the reimagination and negotiation of cultural and religious identity. Through case studies and narrative accounts, this presentation illustrates how an “art of sociability” enables individuals to navigate the complexities of exile, reinventing themselves and making a home in the face of rupture and loss.