Lobby installation, A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, 2025
Materials: glass marbles, clear thread, metal caps, sound
Sound credits: Mohammad Balawneh
Dimensions: 200 × 250 cm
Between Times - بين زمنين
Between Times is a visual exploration of a lost sense of place, drawing from memories of the artist’s childhood hara (neighborhood), a world that now exists only in recollection.
The work contrasts a past rich with sensory life—marbles scattering across the ground, playful disputes, the echo of children’s voices—with a present defined by silence and containment.
An assemblage of glass marbles hangs suspended, frozen in time. Together, they form a constellation of memory, each sphere holding a fragment of what once was.
Suspended between presence and absence, the installation reflects on how physical and social spaces slowly shrink. It inhabits the fragile space between what was and what is no longer—hovering like a compressed universe of glass, waiting to one day find its ground.
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