WORKS
KNOT
Collaboration with Rebecca Wilcox, 20244 channel sound installation with live interventions and mixed media: papier-mâché casts, graphite on paper, photographic print, perspex, acetone transfer on tracing paper, LED light, digital print.
Part of an ongoing collaboration with Wilcox (pictured below, during a live performance of Knot at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow). Working primarily in sound, we use field recordings, processed voice and synthesis.
From Knot. Digital print of collaborative text, 420 x 595mm
Knot installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024
From Knot. Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm; photographic print, 152 x 101mm; clear and tinted perspex, various dimensions; installed at Broadside Gallery, Glasgow, December 2024
Detail from Knot. Graphite on paper, 420 x 594mm
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,
YA MAYLA
Performance, 2023Performance at Gr’ambacht, Mechelen, Belgium, June 2023. Part of an ongoing project developed in residence at Q-O2, a workspace for experimental music and sound art in Brussels.
The project explores language loss, translation and song, particularly in the Arab diaspora; and pays attention to the materiality and corporeality of voices. This performance was built from recordings of conversations about one song in particular, Ya Mayla Al Ghoussoune by Fairuz. Song lyrics are (mis)-translated and these translations, with all their idiosyncrasies, hesitations, inaccuracies and certainties, have their own poetry.
LENIS
Publication, 2023
Published in volume 26 of 2HB, a journal for creative and experimental writing in contemporary art. This includes drawings from the Lenition series, and is a development of work begun in the earlier video work Lenis.
Read the work as published in 2HB here.