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What would happen if the whole world becomes your bedroom?
A fetus can spend around 40 weeks in a mother’s womb with all their survival needs provided
to them. From the moment a newborn take their first breath in the outside the parents
immediately make sure and somehow simulate the womb’s conditions in their new
environment, their home, their bedroom. Later on, the world becomes this womb and a human
being starts exploring how to adapt with this new home, this new bedroom. They start looking
for that private and intimate place that they can feel safe at.
This series is an invitation for people to explore their native womb with me through a bed, to
think of these intimate and personal yet so pure actions; having a break down or maybe doing a
happy dance, getting dressed and undressed, falling asleep to dream then waking up, folding
your sheets or just leaving them undone.
A fetus can spend around 40 weeks in a mother’s womb with all their survival needs provided
to them. From the moment a newborn take their first breath in the outside the parents
immediately make sure and somehow simulate the womb’s conditions in their new
environment, their home, their bedroom. Later on, the world becomes this womb and a human
being starts exploring how to adapt with this new home, this new bedroom. They start looking
for that private and intimate place that they can feel safe at.
This series is an invitation for people to explore their native womb with me through a bed, to
think of these intimate and personal yet so pure actions; having a break down or maybe doing a
happy dance, getting dressed and undressed, falling asleep to dream then waking up, folding
your sheets or just leaving them undone.
Photography by: Hiba Al-Nabulsi
Credit to the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts for being a part in making this project.
‘Unfolded Sheets’ I–IV, 2019. Digital prints; 60 x 40 cm. Installation view: Vantage
Point Sharjah 8, Sharjah Art
Foundation, 2020.
Photo: Sharjah Art Foundation.