What Resides Between the Lines?
(Moving image, projected text, text and sound performance)
Presented in the contexts of Aeroponic Acts, Where the Moon Is Up at Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy, 2023.
This artwork took its shape from drawing on a number of studies on the deserts in West Asia and North Africa region. The deserts in this region were subject to colonial violence during and after colonial rule, which took shape in a number of interventions that were not limited to the extractivism of natural resources. This aim of this artwork is to question the colonial narrative about these deserts that saw them empty of knowledge and mistreated lands that can only be seen valuable if transformed into forests.
This presentation is done in collaboration with the artist Iliada Charalambous for text performance and the artist and sound designer Mazen Al Ashkar who’s contribution took the form of live sound performance.