Dena Al-Adeeb

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Dena Al-Adeeb

دينا الأديب

01 — على حافة البحر
At the Edge of the Sea ↗

An Iraqi-born transnational artist, scholar, and cultural worker whose practice moves between the geographies of war, the architecture of memory, and the everyday work of survival.

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Index — 10 works · 2006–2023

Glimpsed through
apertures.

Performance, video, installation, sound, and letter-writing — each a window onto the geographies of war, memory, and refuge.

  1. 01 Sunlight crossing the patinated copper tiles of a vast roof — from An Archive of Future Memories

    An Archive of Future Memories

    2023 · Video · performance · installation · sound art · book
  2. 02 A lone figure at the luminous edge of the sea — a still from At the Edge of the Sea على حافة البحر

    At the Edge of the Sea على حافة البحر

    2022 · Live two-channel video + sound performance
  3. 03 A hand holds wild red poppies and chamomile against a sunlit Palestinian hillside — Love Letters to Palestine

    Love Letters to Palestine

    2021 · Video · photography · letter writing
  4. 04 A glowing red suspended form fills a domed performance space, with the audience seated below — Crossings / عبور عبور

    Crossings عبور

    2019 – ongoing · Electro-acoustic expanded cinema · sound · moving image · vocal traditions · sonic installation
  5. 05 A miniature tabletop tableau staging a scene of judgment and witness — A People’s Tribunal

    A People’s Tribunal

    2019 · Tableau · miniature installation
  6. 06 A blue-toned composite of mannequins behind printed newspaper — This Stays Between Us

    This Stays Between Us

    2016 & 2018 · Walking as an art practice · digital and archival art
  7. 07 A long communal table of diasporic Iraqis sharing a meal in a darkened room — The Taste of Displacement

    The Taste of Displacement

    2014 · Two-channel video and live art project
  8. 08 A pale, ghostly figure stands in the doorway of a ruined structure deep in bare winter woods — Disturbance

    Disturbance

    2013 · Performance and triptych video
  9. 09 A lone robed figure stands in a vast field of snow, dwarfed by white emptiness — Baghdadi Mem/Wars, Absence/Presence

    Baghdadi Mem/Wars

    2010 · Video and photography · triptych
  10. 10 An elaborate devotional installation glowing with green, gold, and red light, built by community members for Ashura — Sacred Spaces

    Sacred Spaces

    2006 · Installation · photography · community-engaged work
“Apocalypses are not in the future. Apocalypses are happening now.”

— CAPAS, Heidelberg University — interview ↗

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