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By Your Side (2019)

Video/Sound Installation 

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Home Strike video
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By Your Side Projection Sample

About the work

Premiered Dec 2019 at Zhou B Arts Center in "Lurking Shadow // Lurking Image", Chicago IL

Digital media video that was created in the artist's now suburban American home. Featuring family archival analog footage from the 1950's and archival audio from appx 1980s of spoken prayer and song in Arabic, by the artist's late uncle and grandfather. This artwork explores the complexities of Lebanese heritage within a modern American context. The artist delves into their personal struggle of reconciling "home" with their Lebanese roots. Viewed through fragmented mirror projection, the work symbolizes the separation a family can experience from their culture, transforming a familiar space into a reflection of displacement.

 

 

The work is made through projection being bounced off mirrors to create fragmentation in the image and cracks in the projected video. The lightning flash in the digital video creates a thunder sound effect heard openly while viewing the piece, while internal audio is installed separately through a small 2000's style mp3 player directed through the headset. This separation establishes a differentiation between the external home and the internal. The work changes based on the space it is installed in, thusly the projection is cracked differently according to the space in which it exists. Much like our homes and the families living there.

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