Bassam Al-Sabah
2021Fenced within the silent cold walls
Bassam Al-Sabah
The CGI film featuring a recreation of my former home in Iraq, which my family cannot return to. As the film moves through the house, digital images begin to escape from the forgotten TV and computer screens and materialise into living forms. These forces surge out in utter destruction, invading the domestic realm without restraint. We then hear a narration in Arabic from my grandmother where she describes the burning of sentimental objects in the home before fleeing, and digital fabrications of these objects appear before disintegrating.
Fenced within the silent cold walls
I AM ERROR
Bassam Al-Sabah
This 30 minute animation first installed at Gasworks (London) 2021, projected onto a curved screen, features a collection of cinematic sequences from an imaginary game in which the hero's body is constantly in flux, undergoing metamorphoses as a result of his encounter with other lifeforms, whose physical touch makes him vunlerable to change, threatening his identity and selfhood.
I AM ERROR
