Visual Frames: Cities and the Limits of Perception - Esra Rahma
Esra Rahma ( Sudan )
The Visual Frames project is a visual project that discusses the forced displacement caused by migration and war. The project attempts to explore our relationship with space and time, and the intersections of violence in shaping our memory of places, human emotions and feelings and changed body memory in unstable situations. Based on our memory of place in cities and as it archives those places, it places them in a certain position on the margins, far from the human identity that is historically linked to the place. Our identity, and the stories we tell about ourselves, are formed through the people and places to which we belong. The project combines works of war and forced movement that invite viewers to enter and try to explore how we cope with militarized life when a new memory is formed within us.
This residency takes place as part of “لسة / not yet / still,” a regional project in the field of visual arts, initiated by the Goethe-Institutes in North Africa and the Middle East and implemented in cooperation with ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics.