Even The Mentally Stable People Can Be Evil, 2022

7 x 9 CM

photography, acrylic, and graphite on 250 gsm paper

This project started as an exhibition at Blå Stället Konsthall where it was called “Manifestation of A Queer Diaspora” which is a political, queer, and psychological study of my life via a series of images, installations, and paintings.

This photograph of Bashar Al Assad is always seen in every home and every institution within Syria. It serves as the all-seeing eye and it is a way to serve as a metaphor or an example to monitor and censor the Syrian people. In this project, I worked on deforming the image of Bashar Al Assad to escape the internal institutional fear of seeing this picture and understand that the harm of the Assad regime is not possible anymore.

From Blå Stället Konsthall