I work with photography and archival material to examine how images shape perception, memory, power, and imagination.

My practice unfolds through long-term artistic projects that return to existing images—not to document reality, but to interrogate how reality is visually constructed, inherited, and internalized. I approach the image not as a neutral record of what happened, but as an active force that continues to act upon the world—and upon us.

Early in my artistic life, I worked as a photographer within humanitarian and institutional contexts in Palestine. It was there that I learned what images do in the real world: how they circulate, persuade, simplify, legitimize, and silence. That experience shaped my understanding of photography as a site of responsibility and marked the beginning of a sustained inquiry into how images participate in systems of control—and how they might be reworked to liberate perception from its own captivity.

Since the early 2000s, my work has incorporated narrative, archival fragments, and symbolic reconstruction. I work across photography, collage, installation, and text, using visual dissonance not as an effect, but as a method. Across different bodies of work, I return to a recurring question: how images shape who we believe we are—and how they might be reimagined otherwise.

Alongside exhibitions, my practice moves between making, writing, and transmission. I am the author of The Parachute Paradox (Kerber Verlag, 2016), a memoir tracing a lived journey toward the decolonization of imagination, and The Artist’s Curse | On Being an Artist Navigating the Art Market and the Art World, a practice-based work that examines artistic autonomy, structural pressures, and survival from within the lived reality of the art world.

Since 2024, I have been leading The Art Practice | From Vision to Action at the Barenboim–Said Akademie in Berlin. This work extends my artistic inquiry into a shared space—where imagination, responsibility, and form are continually tested and renegotiated.

I do not see my role as representing reality, but as intervening in how it is seen. My work seeks to open images rather than close them—to create spaces where perception can loosen, shift, and begin again.