40 cm x 50 cm
Auto-Portrait at the closed border between Lebanon and Israel

The work is inspired by the greek term pneuma translated as breath of life relating to air (in motion) and fire (warmth). The concept also indicates a generative principle in the organizing matter between the individual and the cosmos.

With kind support of the ENSAPC Paris, Alba University Media Department Beirut

100 cm x 80 cm

Auto-Portrait with yellow pigment at the closed border between Lebanon and Israel.

With kind support of the ENSAPC Paris, Alba University Media Department Beirut

40 cm x 40 cm

Red painted feet on petroglyphs in Wadi Rum (Valley of the moon), Jordan

(Going from Berlin to Istanbul while taking a picture each time a person enters the compartment)
33 Photographies 30 cm x 40 cm

The work plays on the role of authorship within the formation of an image through inversion. Inspired by a text of philosopher Merleau-Ponty entitled “Eye and Mind”, the generative process of a picture is attributed to the random appearance of another voyager. Following Merleau Ponty´s phenomenological investigations vision emanates from a bodily encounter as a center of perception and medium of consciousness. In this series this encounter is translated into the picture showing a landscape in front of a window, a sign for openness. Photography appears as what Susan Sontag calls an act of “non-intervention”. Politically the work can be observed as a testifier for a geopolitical union (The European Union) and its encounter with its geopolitical border region (Turkey).

With kind support of Fondazione Mediterraneo Naples/Euromed Cinemed Program

4 photographies 70 cm x 50 cm

The work is inspired by philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) “Floating Man” thought experiment suggesting a man suspended in air. Avicenna attributed tanbīh (pointer) to the Floating Man as an attribute of self-awareness. Floating Cairo shows a serie of pictures of the city being flooded by the Nile shifting the limits of urban and rural space while making fertility the consciousness of human essence.

With kind support of Radius Fund Heinrich Boll Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Townhouse Gallery Cairo

200 cm x 90 cm

The work is inspired by a text by philosopher Peter Sloterdijk giving emphasis to the copernican astronomical model positioning the Sun at the center of the Universe in his theory of Post-Modernism. The photography shows a brown painted steel tube with a red pop-filter created as a ready-made sculpture. The title describes a bodily reaction as a natural mechanism recurring between speech and vision.

With kind support of Lage Egal Berlin

6 Photographies on cyanotype paper 14 cm x 19 cm

The work addresses to the formation of the picture as a phenomenological experience of the Now. It is inspired by a text of John Berger, “Understanding a photography”, where he transposes a text by Brecht about acting into the context of social experience in photography: “So you should simply make the instant stand out, without in the process hiding what you are making it stand out from. Give your acting that progression of one-thing-after-another, that attitude of working up what you have taken on. In this way you will show the flow of events and also the course of your work, permitting the spectator to experience this Now on many levels, coming from previously and merging into afterwards, also having much else Now alongside it. He is sitting not only in your theatre but also in the world.”

The pictures are developed on cyanotype paper replacing all chemical means in the development process while making use of natural sun light.

2 Photographies 50 cm x 40 cm

The photography shows a natural fruit grown in the respective geographic area being assembled with an electronic device. It reflects on contemporary use and transmission of pictures and is inspired by the endosymbiosis theory by Lynn Margulis.

Photography 50 cm x 40 cm

The work is inspired by Auto-Portrait of Marcel Duchamp making use of a distorted coat hanger. The introduction of pomegranate seeds reflects the Artist´s relation to Renaissance painting period as symbol of fertility, faith and renewal.

Photography 15 cm x 20 cm

The work is based on a copy of the painting Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. The transformative act upon the copy refers to the work LHHOQ by Marcel Duchamp. It also plays within a dispute of actual authorship of the original painting.

24 Photographies 100 cm x 100 cm

The work is inspired by the work of Japanese physicist and meteorologist Masao Abe recording the clouds surrounding Mount Fuji. It adopts ideas embed in Japanese aesthetics and thought describing impermanence, ambiguity and imperfection.

Photography 70 cm x 50 cm

The work is a Collage made out of elements of scientific Imaging technologies, holland painting of the Golden Age and a music composition sheet. The title refers to a research of anthropologist Arturo Escobar calling for Designs for the Pluriverse.