Artist statement 

 

  

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My practice comments on navigating identity and questioning belonging through self awareness in moments of realizations. ​In this series, which started as paintings and drawing, now venture in sculptural and ceramic, I try to visually capture the uncomfortable inner-struggle that ungrounds us from the ‘situation’ in question. This time, focusing on the idea of diaspora and shedding light on the constant awkwardness that comes from being other-ed.
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Coinciding with its heavy meaning in historical paintings, and its strong connection in the Arab culture today, I chose to create a body of work that manifested from fruit, titled ‘Fruit Salad’. Each piece is a  hybrid of three different fruits. What you see is a fruit, yet does not fit in any actual existing category. Which discusses and questions our connection and disconnection between the self and the grasping roots from what we crave; finding a place of belonging.  

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Creating visually distorted pieces, featuring a melancholy face, consumed by thought, irritated from the complexity of identity, and the repeated inquiry of "but where are you really from?"