(Lebanon)

 Aya Abdallah is a visual artist and architect based in Beirut. Working with text and image (moving and still), her work examines the ruination and militarization of spaces. Her current research traces the labor of mourning involved in reconstructing destroyed gravestones in the cemeteries of South Lebanon’s border villages, considering how rituals of grief become forms of dwelling. She holds an MFA in Digital+Media from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a fellow at Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program.

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