The Distance Between Two Points, 2019
Moving images as sites of political inquiry and deconstruction.
Through fragmentation, juxtaposition, and the reworking of visual material, these works examine how images, narratives, and collective realities are constructed, disrupted, and reinterpreted.
Beneath a Pile of Rubble, 2023
Moving between flowers, rubble, and fragmented bodily forms, Beneath a Pile of Rubble examines the fragile boundary between life and destruction. The imagery unfolds as a meditation on vulnerability, mourning, and the search for refuge, where the body becomes both a site of rupture and a possibility of renewal. Gestures reminiscent of prayer evoke a silent negotiation with loss, while the recurring forms of the face and womb suggest the intertwined conditions of memory, origin and survival. Accompanied by the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the work reflects on what remains beneath the ruins—not only the material traces of destruction, but also the persistence of human presence, grief and the desire for life.
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