“I am interested in the aesthetics, narrative devices, performative histories, and media artifacts of mainstream audiovisual culture that have unintentionally created openings for queer spectators to project their desires, fabulating selves and worlds that could have been.
In my practice, which spans film, video, text, and live performance, I build worlds where queerness is the norm, not the exception; worlds where queer Arabs are strong, outspoken, and unapologetic storytellers, at once products of and traitors to a media apparatus that seeks to render them invisible.
Through research, collaborations and formal experimentation, my work imagines new afterlives for the formats, aesthetics, and technologies of popular culture by taking advantage of moments when it fails to fully assimilate its audiences, producing gaps or malfunctions that open space for alternative imaginaries.
I like to think of my body of work as a proposal for a counter-history of audiovisual culture, shaped by the desires, interpretive labors, and embodied modes of engagement of those who have been systematically excluded from the screen, despite constituting a loyal fan base for the entertainment industry.”