Hybrid Memory
In Hybrid Memory I draw the duality of my existence since my displacement from Damascus in 2010: tangible memory alongside blurry memory within digital worlds. This video installation captures a home that spans multiple time zones – from Damascus, Baghdad, Istanbul to Paris – rooted in daily video calls with family. Through a box of disassembled screen filters, viewers gaze into a space of fragmented memories, representing my scattered family, brought together only in this digital abode.The artwork transforms screens from mere projectors to windows into lives lived in solitude, reflecting the intermittent and sometimes blurred transmissions that connect us. It is a testament to communication across distance and an account of events attended virtually—a wedding, an engagement, the growth of beards, the intense absence of loss.
As technology blurs the lines between the present and the actor, “Hybrid Memory” raises the question of existence beyond the screen, where my family and I become guardians of a divided but profound reality. This work is an intimate record of digital echoes, an artistic investigation into the medium that supports our fragmented union
Amphebious
Amphibious is a film about Khaled’s integration into a new city whose culture and language are foreign to him. As the story progresses, Khaled tries to connect with his environment by adopting a fish, which is like a symbol of his search for identity and belonging. Amphibious is a metaphor for this journey, and underlines the idea that life is a continuous process of adaptation and transformation, during which the boundaries between different states of existence are often blurred and uncertain. It is a testament to the resilience of human thought in the face of isolation and alienation.
Featured Work
Man and Chaos
journey of a young man to search for his true memory after it was replaced by a false one. After his success in escaping the war and arriving in a new country, he thought that the war here had ended, only to discover that the war was still going on, and that he carried it inside him.