Map of Bodies and Intimacies
2025
Epson Enhanced Matte 189gsm prints
Projection
Phone Screens
Sound
The Map of Bodies and Intimacies challenges the fundamentally extractive process of digital mapping. Its is aim to locate the feelings, intimacies and imagination within a place and export it. It acts as a space for users to engage with meaning and place without the goal of a "total history" or complete understanding. It provides fragments, not a whole. The audience is invited to “touch and linger”, but not to capture. The map's inherent failure to provide a neat, complete narrative of south Jeddah’s changed landscape is its most imaginative quality.
The digital map here is a repertoire that privileges embodied knowledge and lived experience. It holds gestures, sounds, and affects that enact "disorderly lingerings" on grief and memory. The map documents how people moved through and felt about the neighborhoods, archiving the "lingering actions" of bodies in motion. It’s a collection of fleeting moments and personal memories that cannot be fully captured in a conventional file.
