Some Swift Couriers, 2023
Some Swift Couriers, 2023 Commissioned installation, Hudson Yards. Wool Rugs, 5' x 7' and wall paintings.
Commissioned installation, Hudson Yards. Wool Rugs, 5' x 7' and wall paintings.
Some Swift Couriers, 2023 View of 3 of 7 hand tufted wool rugs, 5' x 7' each
Commissioned installation, Hudson Yards. Wool Rugs, 5' x 7' and wall paintings.
Some Swift Couriers, 2023
Some Swift Couriers, 2023
Some Swift Couriers, 2023
Some Swift Couriers, 2023
Souvenirs From the Future, Collaboration with Andrew Demirjian
A speculative fiction presented as an ethnographic museum within the Arab American National Museum
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
The exhibition presents the material culture and rituals of this thriving SWANA imaginary, which values sensory experiences, creativity, post-commodity exchanges and a deep connection to the natural world.
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
Souvenirs from the Future uses the familiar experience of engaging with traditional institutional presentations that look back in linear time, but here Elsayed and Demirjian invite visitors to look forward and envision the possibilities of a future history.
Souvenirs From the Future
Souvenirs From the Future
Sound Lamp
Souvenirs From the Future
Artists Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Demirjian have created a fictive survey of artifacts from an undated future that tell the story of Mustaqbaaaahpolis (future-breath-city), a city built on the interchange of ideas, aesthetics and knowledge in a system liberated of chrononormativity and extractive economic systems.
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
Some Typical Plates, A Tissue for No Tears
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
Enhanced Vision Stones, A Collection of Talismans/Amulets
Souvenirs From the Future, 2022
A Game for No Winners
From Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow? 2020
Installation View
From Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow?, 2020
Installation View
From Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow?, 2020 Installation View at Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
A rest stop for the future based on the past, Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow?, by artists Dahlia Elsayed and Andrew Demirjian, presents an alternate world intended to reconnect people with the senses, rituals, and mythologies that have been diminished in an age dominated by relentless commerce and time scarcity.
Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow? 2020
Installation View
From Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow? 2020
Poetry for Alpha Waves The black striped disc is painted with motion sensitive paint, which when triggered, recites poetry quietly to the visitor
Souvenirs From The Future, From Which Yesterday Is Tomorrow, 2020
Establishing an alternative to the historical narrative of colonization, crisis, and territoriality portrayed in Western media, in tandem with their own work Elsayed and Demirjian have invited a group of SWANA (South West Asian/North African) designers, painters, sculptors, and poets to contribute to establishing a space for re-connection for artists. (l-r, top to bottom) Aiham Dib, Sayran Barzani, Negar Ahkami, Linda Ganjian, Tarek Bouraque, Samira Abassy, Anahita Vossoughi, Suzan Batu, Negar Ahkami