Location: Château Beaurepaire in France’s Loire Valley. 1st floor.
Coordinates: 49°17′40″N 2°34′20″E
Documented: September 2023
Artwork Title: Syria…as my mother speaks
This is a Digital Twin project. We ask you to slow down and look, to fight against our collective habit to swipe and scroll.
Artist Statement
Syria…as my mother speaks (2014), is an interactive playable “stringed instrument,” connecting wire to the architecture of a space, and when triggered, plays snippets of conversations with my mother (mainly in Arabic), centered around the war in Syria, our relatives there, and her memories before the war. These snippets are layered against a backdrop of war sounds, chants, and Syrian songs, where each string triggers different points in this sound collage.
About Digital Twin
Digital Twin is a digital based project aimed at presenting a fresh perspective. It is artwork captured digitally in an original location, showcasing the interplay of light on surfaces, that alters the way art is experienced and opening the viewer up to novel ways of seeing. In this digital environment we ask the viewer to slow down and look, to fight against our collective habit to swipe and scroll.
Digital Twin is a digital based project aimed at presenting a fresh perspective. It is artwork captured digitally in an original location, showcasing the interplay of light on surfaces, that alters the way art is experienced and opening the viewer up to novel ways of seeing. In this digital environment we ask the viewer to slow down and look, to fight against our collective habit to swipe and scroll.