From a window

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From a window, 2015. Video, 1’.
From a window, 2015. Video, 1’.
From a window, 2017. Video, 1’.
From a window, 2017. Video, 1’. Installation view from Now You’re Far Away at Galerist, Istanbul, June 2017.
From a window, 2015. Video, 1’. Installation view from Maskan Apartment Project, Beirut, March 2015.
From a window, 2015. Installation view of Why Are You Here? at TOZ, Istanbul, February 2016.

To access the videos on Vimeo, please click here, here, here, here, or here. 

When I went to Beirut for the Homework Space Program at Ashkal Alwan in 2014, I was struck by my overwhelming desire to photograph abandoned spaces and physical remnants of destruction and violence. In order to create a paradigm within which I could once again make images, I decided to only make photographic work from within my apartment or within 50 meters of the apartment—a decision that I abode by 2015-2019. With From a Window, I made one-minute videos consisting of a still image of a view outside my window and voiceovers of my reading texts that riffed off of something that I was seeing from the window at the time. I have exhibited these videos online and as installations in exhibition spaces. 

Editing by Maxime Hourani (2015) and Mary Jirmanus Saba (2017)