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Air[loom], is a collaboration with artist Rashed Al Falasi. Relics from our family are shown wrapped in a sterile fashion. In the process of safeguarding these possessions, the possessor is thus distanced from accessing them. The inability to come into contact with these objects mirrors the inability to come into contact with the physical manifestations of family identity. While within reach, the valuables denoting history, family, are rendered distant. This visual essay reflects that home is manifested in material belongings, but that those very physical objects do not ensure an ownership of identity. The tension between identity and ownership, physical objects and belonging, are all colliding themes that are played out in this series.
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PHOTOGRAPHY:
MASHAEL ALSAIE
BAHRAIN
RASHED AL FALASI
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES