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My practice explores themes of memory, belonging, identity, and movement.
Working mainly with ceramics, photography, and sound, I investigate the tension between staying rooted and the desire to travel and explore new places.
Drawing from my personal history — my family’s nomadic background and my own experiences moving between Morocco, the UK, and other countries — my work acts as a bridge between past and present, home and away.
Using clay sourced from Morocco and soil collected from my family’s land in Rhamna, I create handmade ceramic tiles layered with photographic transfers from my travels.
The clay represents my origins — my grounding in the land and culture of Morocco — while the images represent the outward layer of experience, documenting the places I have explored.
Together, they form a physical and emotional map of movement, memory, and connection.
Imperfections in the clay, small cracks, and uneven surfaces are not hidden but embraced — they reveal the material’s “memory,” its history of movement and handling, echoing the human experience of change and adaptation.
A sound element, featuring a recording of my grandfather’s voice reading a poem, further deepens the personal connection, weaving together the physical, emotional, and sensory threads of the installation.
Through this work, I explore how identity is shaped not just by where we are from, but also by where we go — and how, no matter how far we travel, certain places and memories remain deeply embedded within us.
This installation reflects on grief, displacement, and the search for connection. Tiles made from Moroccan clay line the walls, each one imprinted with photographs collected during my travels and family life. The space is grounded with soil brought from my ancestral land — specifically from my grandfather’s grave — creating a physical and emotional bridge between past and present.
A sound piece plays a recorded exchange between my grandfather and me, forming a dialogue across generations in Arabic. The layout, arranged in a circular path, invites viewers to walk through a narrative of return, echoing both personal memory and a wider experience of migration.
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