With Dust and Light: Reflections on Memory, Movement and Metaphor

Sama Alshaibi’s lecture delves into the key themes that have shaped her practice over the past two decades through photography, video, emerging media, and installation. Engaging in site-specific visual explorations, performative gestures, and often using her body as a gendered site or geographic device, Alshaibi reflects on both personal and collective experiences of migration, fragmentation, refugeeism, and citizenship. Her work reimagines the afterworlds of war and socio-ecological collapse, meditating on survival and resilience.