REACTION

Photography
2010
Series of 4 Images
Edition of 10

Reaction is a direct exploration of identity and the currents that shape human experience. I engaged in a visual dialogue between my two cultural identities interpreting the aesthetics of Arabic calligraphy through a French-trained lens.

This series emerged from a movement-based expressive arts installation, where a French dancer was invited to flow with the unfamiliar forms of Arabic calligraphy. It was an exploration of interpretation and adaptation to a visceral response to the unknown. It went beyond the meaning of the words and focused more on the felt sense experience. A reaction, as the body’s instinctive engagement with movement and the pulse of response before thought. It reflects the way we meet unfamiliar experiences, not just intellectually but through sensation, rhythm, and presence.

This body of work explores the tension between freedom and conformity, a dynamic mirrored in the pulsatory process of life’s movements of a basic rhythm; an expansion and contraction. The nudity of the woman as a representation of freedom in expression, while her timid postures embody the conformity in expansion. It explores the moments when presence yields into absence, and belonging dissolves into separation.

Tracing the rhythm of movement itself, an unseen pulse that carries us between openness and retreat, tension and grace. Each artwork as a shifting state, reflecting the delicate balance between surrender and emergence, stillness and motion.

EXHIBITION
2013 | Institut Du Monde Arabe, “SyriArt” 101 oeuvres pour la Syrie, Paris
2013 | Pierre Berge & Associes, Auction partnered with The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Paris

AWARDS
2015 | A’ Design Award: Bronze Prize, winner in Photography & Photo Manipulation Design Category.