DAYS AND YEARS
Multichannel sound installation, 2025This project is shaped by thinking around language loss, translation and song, particularly in the Arab diaspora. Like much of my work, the work pays attention to the materiality and corporeality of voices. It places particular emphasis on moments of hesitation, repetition, and non-verbal sound as people describe their changing relationship with Arabic, their first language. This began with observations of my family’s changing relationship with the language, living in the UK, and conversations on the experience of losing a mother tongue. Recordings of those conversations form its primary material.
Developed in residence at Q-O2, a workspace for experimental music and sound art in Brussels,