WHEN HOME ISN’T YOUR HOME ANYMORE
About
The project When Home Isn’t Your Home Anymore is a Myriorama that is also a reportage of survivors from geographical and political struggles. The work contains interactiveness that allows people to rearrange the images, communicating the survivors’ emotional struggle in the storytelling process and how all the stories are in the present rather than just in the past.
Title: The Story of Maha and Muhammed
Description: Six prints based on the true story of family survivors from the Syrian civil war.
Medium: Wooden box and intaglio prints
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Muhammad opened a carpenter workshop, planning for life in Syria with his newly engaged partner Maha. However, as war broke out, everything began to look terrible. More and more people were becoming armed and they heard stories of people being executed. Muhammad had to flee to southwestern Syria, but the secret-service caught and arrested him, with his brother and his father.
Mohammed was held for eight and half months and was tortured. Upon release he had to flee again and managed to find a way to cross the border into Lebanon, reuniting with Maha in Tripoli.
Living in Lebanon was not easy: they were discriminated against, abused verbally and Mohammed’s brother was attacked. Just a week after Maha gave birth to their daughter, their landlord through them out. After three years they finally gained Asylum in the UK where they are having a positive experience and have a better life.
Title: The Story of Children in Masafer Yatta
Description: Six Prints based on the true story of Palestinian children in Massafer Yatta.
Mediuim: Wooden box and intaglio prints
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Ali Jaradat, Qais Al-Hamadien, and Sara Al-Hamadien, are Palestinian children living in the West Bank. As is the case for many Palestinians living there, they and their families are constantly threatened and fear displacement.
Ali’s house in Khallet ad-Daba'a has been destroyed four times. He and his classmates are exposed to the threat of attacks on their way to school in At-Tuwani every day. Qais is a child from Khirbet al-Fakheit who dreams of having a house, not a cave. He also dreams of going to kindergarten, but he fears that the settlers on the hills will prevent him from having that experience. Sara from Khibert al-Fakheit also faces a long walk to school in At-Tuwani in the hot weather or rain. Sometimes settlers have tried to block the path to school or set up barriers.
All Palestinians living in Masafer Yatta face stress and anxiety since the building of two Israeli settlements nearby, Ma’on and Havat Ma’on. Since then, they have faced attacks and since 2004, the Israeli army started escorting children to school. As a result of occupation, several schools have been demolished, either depriving children of education or meaning they have to walk longer, more dangerous routes
Trading Zone 2025
A well-known Scottish gallery, Talbot Rice Gallery, selected the work as part of the Trading Zone exhibition 2025 alongside Master’s and PhD’s works and professional artists.