Djinnscapes
Djinnscapes is an exploration of the unseen forces, presences, and landscapes that inhabit the Arabic-speaking world—realms often overlooked or erased by dominant histories and visual narratives. Through abstract drawings and conceptual installations, I map these invisible territories, evoking djinn not merely as folkloric creatures but as metaphors for memory, trauma, and the spiritual residues that shape collective and personal identities.
This project challenges the limits of representation by embracing abstraction as a means to access the ineffable. The works oscillate between the tangible and intangible, layering marks, textures, and materials that suggest portals into realms where the spiritual, the historical, and the corporeal intertwine.
In Djinnscapes, mapping becomes an act of reclaiming: resisting colonial cartographies that have sought to classify and control, while honoring oral traditions, metaphysical knowledge, and the stories of those whose voices are often silenced—particularly women, marginalized communities, and the descendants of disrupted lineages.
By inviting the unseen into space through drawing and installation, Djinnscapes seeks to create a sensory landscape of thresholds—between past and present, visible and invisible, the material and the spiritual. It is a meditation on presence and absence, on what remains when histories are fragmented or erased, and on the potential to reimagine and inhabit worlds beyond the limits of what can be seen.
This project challenges the limits of representation by embracing abstraction as a means to access the ineffable. The works oscillate between the tangible and intangible, layering marks, textures, and materials that suggest portals into realms where the spiritual, the historical, and the corporeal intertwine.
In Djinnscapes, mapping becomes an act of reclaiming: resisting colonial cartographies that have sought to classify and control, while honoring oral traditions, metaphysical knowledge, and the stories of those whose voices are often silenced—particularly women, marginalized communities, and the descendants of disrupted lineages.
By inviting the unseen into space through drawing and installation, Djinnscapes seeks to create a sensory landscape of thresholds—between past and present, visible and invisible, the material and the spiritual. It is a meditation on presence and absence, on what remains when histories are fragmented or erased, and on the potential to reimagine and inhabit worlds beyond the limits of what can be seen.
