ARCHIVE X (Ongoing project)
Archive X examines how images survive destruction and how memory reorganises itself through what remains. The project began after the loss of my family home in South Lebanon, where I encountered ruined family photographs scattered among the debris. These images—altered by rain, heat, and time—became the core of a long-term investigation into looking, care, and the instability of history.
Working across photography, video, sound, and installation, Archive X explores the moment between finding and understanding, between image and un-image. It questions what happens when we look again, when we stay with ruin long enough to see what resists erasure. The project transforms damaged archives into sites of reflection, turning fragments of loss into active spaces for thought and remembrance.
Archive X was developed further during a two-week research residency at Konvent Zero in Cal Rosal, Spain. The residency provided a focused period for experimentation and reflection on both the material and conceptual dimensions of the project.
At Konvent Zero, the work shifted from research into physical testing—exploring image-transfer processes, layering techniques, and spatial installation methods that transform the damaged photograph into a tactile object of study. Experiments included transferring photographic emulsion onto different surfaces, examining how pressure, care, or abrasion alter the image’s visibility, and how these gestures echo the project’s central ideas of “un-imaging” and transformation through rupture.
Open studio at Konvent zero
