...مِنْ أرشِيفْ مَشاعري

proof of presence iii

third edition
Proof of Presence I
Proof of Presence II

How did I get so lost along the way?
Denying my soul a space to preside, maybe?
It’s all about allowing, isn’t it?
That’s what they kept saying.

Enter into my window: the stage for a series of backlit self portraits.
The space that shines light on my interior monologue: a visual vocabulary of my feelings, peppered with a cable release. Held together by the film rebate border.

A vertical light table if you will, as the stage for exploring opacity, translucence, and transparence of Self.

The coat hanger appears. A solitary suspension, a sense of solace, perhaps?

Little squares of silent seconds, softly suspended in the window of my dreams.
Negatives sandwiched together, in standard fashion — a game of exposures, in multiples of ninety-nine.

Has anyone thought to question the body as a home?
Are the squares figments of my imagination, or fragments of my dreamscape?

Delicately suspended, veiled before the light. She hangs.
An introspective investigation into my interior-exterior, a muted monochromatic melancholy — the only place I can really call my home.

silver gelatin prints
warmtone fibre
ed. of 1
12 x 16 “
2019

commissioned by the British Council + Ffoto Gallery

traveling exhibition dates:
September 2019: Derby, UK
October 2019: DAI, Kuwait
November 2019: Stal Gallery, Oman
December 2019: Fire Station, Doha, Qatar
January 2020: Bahrain National Museum/Art Center, Bahrain

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