existing is a deep dark shade
(2024)
Video projection on canvas
Shown alongside other works as part of, Echoes and Reflections 1st Experimental Video Collection — Well Bean Co, London, UK.
a growing heavy space.
(2024)
Video projection on canvas
Shown alongside other works — Chelsea College of Arts MA Show, London, UK.
Pulling at the thread
(2024)
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Shown alongside other works — Chelsea College of Arts MA Show, London, UK.
It glows a bright orange
(2024)
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Shown alongside other works — Chelsea College of Arts MA Show, London, UK.
Sleeping on the righthand side of my mother
(2024)
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Shown alongside other works — Chelsea College of Arts MA Show, London, UK.
picking up where you left off.
(2024)
Video on a monitor
Shown alongside my drawing ‘Indebted to Love’ — ‘Dress Rehearsals’, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK.
indebted to love
(2024)
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper
Shown as part of the group exhibition — ‘Sexual Dissidence’, Studio 18 Millbank, London, UK.
you are my love.
(2024)
Video installation on two monitors with audio on headphones
Shown as part of the group exhibition — ‘Haphazard’, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK.
i’m going to daydream my life away.
(2024)
Video Projection.
Shown as part of the International festival — ‘The Third Space’, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK.
a ghost path
(2023)
Video Projection with accompanying text.
Shown as part of the group exhibition — ‘One’, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK.
i’ve been gone for too long.
(2022)
Video Installation on a monitor presented with a bouquet of baby’s breath flowers.
Shown as part of the group exhibition — ‘Through the Crowd’, Greatorex Street Gallery, London, UK
sometimes i love the world much more than it loves me
(2020)
This film is a discussion of the self in relation to how the rest of the world views you. It is an exploration of my current emotions during this current state of the world — the things that have bubbled to the surface and the running thoughts and conversations that have been taking over our lives.
The film takes place in and around my home and neighbourhood, it documents the contrast of the beauty and the underprivileged aspects of daily life from the perspective of marginalised groups in a poor area. The film is then voiced-over with conversations and songs that discuss this confusion around home.
Shown as part of the UAL 2020 Graduate Showcase.
A bird came to my window pt.1
(2019)
My father sits in our living room, playing two songs on his guitar. The first song (عصفور) originating from Lebanon, the opening lyric translates to: A bird came to my window. And said "Oh, little one. Hide me with you, I beg you." The second song being a folk tale from South Sudan, one he had learnt to play whilst at University and one that has become a lullaby to me ever since I was a child. And although I cannot speak Arabic, I understand every word my father sings. Because within each song, feelings of home have been engraved.
On another day, I watch the sun set slowly, tones of orange and pink, against my father’s rendition of The Gleaners. The living room is quiet and still, the only movement coming from the sunlight fading in and out. Together, both of these images create what feels like dreamland to me. And all I can think about is: in times of nothingness, I feel closest to a god.