This installation investigates the architecture of displacement by contrasting a remembered domesticity with the clinical reality of the artist’s current urban environment. Six vertical stove pipes serve as archival surrogates for a home in Suwayda, while the internal audio consists of recorded dialogues between the artist and a mentor who passed away days before his emigration. These recordings act as a temporal threshold, marking the transition from a state of belonging to one of exile. The accompanying video presents a dry visual study of the artist’s current city, a landscape defined by its lack of the thermal and cultural warmth symbolized by the pipes.
What remains is an echo.
A life that sounds familiar,
but no longer feels like it belongs.
A life that sounds familiar,
but no longer feels like it belongs.
