Beyt Ahle (My Parent’s Home), 2025
Acrylic on Wood Board, 12 x 16 inch (30 x 40cm)
Let me jog your memory
Audio recording, 7 minutes 21 seconds
Featuring Eyad & Hiba Molaeb
Documentation by Kim Feng Photography
The continuation of my practice this year explores inherited memory and its relationship to place, stories, and cultural identity. I use landscape paintings as a method of remembering and retracing my family’s home country, and as a way to imaginatively “travel” back to reconcile with my own distance. The memories and stories told to me from my parents direct my painting process, helping me to paint these places as seen through my parent’s eyes — embedding their inherited memories.
My process of painting, use of vibrant colours and the accompanying sound, all intend to speak to the complicated and nuanced nature of cultural identity and it’s relationship with sense of self, as well as what it means to “reconnect”. I’m interested in the relationship between distance and closeness, place and home, colour and desaturation, and the ways in which the memories and stories of our parents and family members influences the way we then view places in our childhood.
Each of these paintings carry so much labour, connection and emotion within them, and I hope that is apparent when seeing them in person.
Acrylic on Wood Board, 12 x 16 inch (30 x 40cm)
Let me jog your memory
Audio recording, 7 minutes 21 seconds
Featuring Eyad & Hiba Molaeb
Documentation by Kim Feng Photography
The continuation of my practice this year explores inherited memory and its relationship to place, stories, and cultural identity. I use landscape paintings as a method of remembering and retracing my family’s home country, and as a way to imaginatively “travel” back to reconcile with my own distance. The memories and stories told to me from my parents direct my painting process, helping me to paint these places as seen through my parent’s eyes — embedding their inherited memories.
My process of painting, use of vibrant colours and the accompanying sound, all intend to speak to the complicated and nuanced nature of cultural identity and it’s relationship with sense of self, as well as what it means to “reconnect”. I’m interested in the relationship between distance and closeness, place and home, colour and desaturation, and the ways in which the memories and stories of our parents and family members influences the way we then view places in our childhood.
Each of these paintings carry so much labour, connection and emotion within them, and I hope that is apparent when seeing them in person.