Works · 2006 – ongoing
A practice that holds the analytical
and the intimate in one frame.
Performance, video, installation, sound, and letter-writing — mapping collective memory, refugee narratives, and the architecture of war. Most works are collaborative and community-engaged; many move between the gallery, the page, and the street.
An Archive of Future Memories
A Letter to My Daughter
A multimedia project about a mother and daughter charting a trilogy of familial forced displacements — bearing witness to the textures of war-based displacement, and to memory as presence and mothering at the end of the world.
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At the Edge of the Sea على حافة البحر
An electro-acoustic expanded-cinema performance that takes the Epic of Gilgamesh as a departure point — excavating the relationship between racialized necropolitical destruction and bodies in protest across time.
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Love Letters to Palestine
Decolonial Love and Feminist Praxis
Drawing on the love letter as an ethnographic, aesthetic, and political modality, a call-and-response archive that practices love as a decolonial method — land, loss, longing, home, and return.
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Crossings عبور
An ongoing collaboration with sound artist Sholeh Asgary that departs from the Epic of Gilgamesh to excavate racialized necropolitical destruction, forced displacement, and bodies in protest.
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A People’s Tribunal
A miniature tableau that takes up the form of the people’s tribunal as a site of witness, testimony, and judgment — the apparatus of accountability itself made the subject.
- 06
This Stays Between Us
A Fantastical, Dialogical Archive
A quasi-fictive archive built by two artists in dialogue — walking, exchanging images and memory to map the psychogeography of Cairo and an alternative archive of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
- 07
The Taste of Displacement
A feminist intervention staging dinner performances with diasporic Iraqis — exploring radical hospitality, the intimacy of “doing-cooking,” and food as a contested marker of cultural memory.
- 08
Disturbance
1990 / 1980 / 2003
A visual and performative memoir as a triptych — 1990, 1980, 2003 — the years of the wars that scored the artist’s own displacements, charting memory as presence against the absurdity of infinite war.
- 09
Baghdadi Mem/Wars
A video and photography series in three suites — Still/Chaos, Efface/Remain, Absence/Presence — on displacement and the embodied experiences of women living in war times.
- 10
Sacred Spaces
(Re)creating Ashura
Al-Adeeb’s earliest project — transposing the communal ritual environments of Ashura, and the community’s hand-built reconstructions of Karbala, into installation art.