Resurrection
Swallow
Survive
To dis-tell
In 2016
Every time she tries to have access..
There is no access
“Museum is under renovation”
In 2017
Every time she tries to have access..
There is no access
“Museum is under renovation”
In 2018
Every time she tries to have access..
There is no access
“Museum is under renovation”
In 2019
Every time she tries to have access..
There is no access
“Museum is under renovation”
In 2020
Every time she tries to have access..
There is no access
“Museum is under renovation”
In 2021
Every time she tries to have access..
There is no access
“Museum is under renovation”
Government
After visiting the Egyptian Museum that is half empty, I remember the opening of the first Palestinian Museum that was opened as an empty museum. The celebration of the opening was a celebration of the building. Living in both Palestine and Egypt makes me think of the museums in these countries and how they are related to the state. In Egypt there is too much state, the state involves and controls everything. There are lots of museums but the state chooses that the majority of these museums remain closed, whether in Palestine there is no state. The private sector and the NGOs control the infrastructures of the city, to the extent that the first museum that holds the name of the country (which is usually the national museum) is run by the private sector.
To Die
To die is to stop the process
To die is to become a past
becoming something else
Becoming useless
Becoming still
Becoming a stone in a cemetery
A monument..
Or an object in a museum
Camouflage
Animalism
Automation
Memory
Floating
Assimilate
Fighting
Space
Language
Immateriality
When a place is occupied, colonised or controlled by power, the materialistic heritage is always a target. It is manipulated to meet the occupiers’ narrative, or destroyed so that it does not stand as an evidence that contradicts their narrative. Perhaps immateriality in such a context can generate the memory much more than artifacts, or archives. Telling can replace museums, archives, books and other traditional resources, whenever someone is telling a story, there is someone who is listening who might tell the story to another person afterwards. This keeps the story alive every time it is told, it also generates the memory, in contradiction to the museum that preserves instead of generating.
Forgetting
We forget what archive tells us to forget
We forget what museum tells us to forget..
A monument of a leader/figure/politician/,
as a reminder for us to forget its period
Artists
Body
Sound
No State
To keep quiet
Crisis
Did you hear about the permanent crisis?
Or almost permanent!
I heard
Which made me believe
That all people believe_the crisis is permanent
All people believe it is unworthy to resist any longer
People are not capable of facing this truth
The truth that//“people gave up on resisting”
Not all of them, but the majority have given up
All the efforts we made
All the efforts you made
All the attempts to reform such a crisis
A few people decided to renegade
To flee
To dislocate
To cross the sea
To build a new memory
To build a new memory is to replace your memory with a new one
To get into a new place
You can't anymore face
The question
Who are you?
Reincarnation
I am afraid to share my dreams with others. For some people, dreams are not just dreams, but rather a process of remembering; dreams are memories. Memories about one of the lives that I have lived in. One can remember through a dream. The dream where we perform the eternal duality of the body and the truth. A truth that hasn’t been done yet. A truth that we missed to perceive.
Exhibitions
Museum
Since I moved to this house, me and The Egyptian Museum became neighbors. I go visit it so often, sometimes alone, when I have a visitor, with the family and for any other occasion. Recently many of the artifacts in the Egyptian Museum had moved to the grand Egyptian museum, which made the visit to the Egyptian Museum very special. Seeing that many displays are empty, and that where there used to be an object located there is a print of a clean area but its surrounding has a thick layer of dust, the empty vitrines in the museum give the feeling that this museum became a museum about museums. These recent visits made me think of the relation between the dust and the objects in the museum. They have a schizophrenic relation, because in a way dust enters the museum with every human visit. When they come to see the objects on display, this dust negatively effects the artifacts, it decreases their lifespan, but on the other hand these objects on display have no value if they are invisible, if they are not seen by humans.
Remembering
Memory or not to die
Everything that is made to make us remember
Makes us forget
The museums, the history books, the photographs, the films, the family albums, the exhibitions, the monuments, the street names, the geography books at schools, our history teacher, the speeches, the taste of food that we like, the noise that comes from the street to my rooms, the birth certificate, the blue biscuit box that exists in my grandparents’ house.
Missing
“Seventeen missing exhibitions!”, ran the headline of an article published by the Palestinian Museum, a white-walled sspace which opened its doors in 20016. I heard many stories about the journey which had taken these artworks from country to country and storeroom to storeroom; they made the works sound like people who’d decided to leave the country, people with names and pasts and memories. As I became familiar with the works, and came to know their features, names and birth dates, it seemed more and more like they'd emigrated- like they’d gone in search of a temporary place of safety while waiting for the day they could return home.
Rumors
From my apartment that exists in the city center of Cairo, I can hear the music, drums and the loud singing that starts after midnight. When looking through the window, I can see a very strong and sharp lights, directed towards the sky as far as the eyes can see. This did not only happen today, but it happens so often. There is nothing mentioned on the media, but rumors are circulating. Some say that it is the preparations of the celebrating the anniversary of the “revolution”\ Military coup, some say that is rehearsals for the revealing of the new monument in Tahrir Square, and others say it is the preparations for moving the mummies from the Egyption Museum in Downtown, to the Civilisation Museum in Giza.
Archives
