a pace of heads, a place of body
2024
single channel video, 1:48:21
This work was done during the Bait Shouaib Residency by Athr Foundation, in Al Balad, Jeddah, KSA.
The bedspace, is an area that is ubiquitous and personal, a space where our attention is surrendered to the realm of the subconscious. It is a space that holds many tensions, a space of dreams and nightmares, and a space of comfort and discomfort. By weaving my body into the bed frame using a green ribbon, i contrastingly create a cage-like enclosure that offers a safe space of imagination. But by having the material be that of a green screen, it opens the potential for this enclosure to be infinite in its potential representation. The material green becomes immaterial in its overlay of video, the green screen then insinuates a multitude of possibilities, it also references the virtual world which has become a sort of collective subconscious, but also a place where our attention is pulled, and our rest interrupted. The virtual world is also one way we enmesh the outside world within our private sphere. informed by Tricia Hersey’s “rest as resistance” i’ve been thinking about the ways in which rest has been robbed of us, and thus the space of dreams, imagination and resistance.
