Le Naufrage, 2019
In Le Naufrage, a photographic collage examines displacement as an ongoing condition rather than a singular event. By bringing together images from family albums, domestic interiors, and present-day landscapes, the work constructs a fragmented visual narrative in which personal memory intersects with the persistence of political violence.
The work layers photographs of homes, rooms, objects, and familiar spaces with images of places transformed by conflict and its aftermath. Through juxtaposition, superimposition, and the recontextualization of photographic material, these images move between past and present, intimacy and estrangement, presence and absence. Domestic spaces emerge not simply as sites of belonging but as repositories of memory vulnerable to the forces that fracture the relationship between people and the places they inhabit. The compositions reveal their temporal complexity: the past remains embedded in the present, while the conditions that produced departure continue to unfold. By bringing archival family photographs into contact with contemporary images, Le Naufrage considers displacement not only as the loss of home but as an ongoing rupture in the transmission of memory, identity, and belonging.
Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 33rd Salon d'Automne exhibition at the Sursock Museum, 2019.
Exhibited at the 3rd Biennale of World Arab Contemporary Photography at l'Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2019.
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