The fourth iteration of Misk Art Institute's Masaha Residency program addresses the theme of "Memory Apparent." Grappling with our current, complex era, this residency attempts to understand the present and the future through examining our perceptions of the past.
In this contemporary moment, many designers spend their time and energy solving complicated challenges and communicating nuanced ideas through visual mediums. The ten residents—nine designers and one writer—have spent the last three months focusing on their own creative force and autonomy, placing research at the core of their practice; they collectively ask: does nostalgia itself need interrogation?
Addressing human legacy through the material culture of design, our residents have researched and produced works that examine the means to construct, repair, and speculate about the past. Nostalgia has always been used as a comfort blanket, a form of security to new, contemporary, and potentially unsettling changes. In the wake of societal metamorphoses, nostalgia becomes tangible and trusted. But can we trust our memories, or must we question what we hold to be true?
The designers featured in the Masaha Residency provide alternative approaches towards materiality, methodologies, and memory itself. We invite you to reflect, question, and transform with us.
Creatives-in-residence: Abeer Alrabiah, Bashayer Alkhayyat, Fatima AlDoukhi, Ghassan Omair, Hajer Alabrahim, Nahla Khogeer, Nouf Abdulkarim, Reema Nasser, Rawan Alsehli, and Sara Albuainain.
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