My Son’s world
“They are not just toy ... they are a memory that bears many details.” This is how my son Omar started his talk about my new project.
In the last ten years, I have collected the remnants of my son Omar’s toys, which bring me back to a memory full of details, in which I relive the childhood that I watch today in my son.
Toys have become very popular in my work in recent years. I have become amazed with them and passionate about collecting them. It usually drives me to meditate. Do I recall my childhood or protect my son with it? or is it a mixture of movement and stillness, past and present, childhood and age?
These toys, which I started with in the project of war and desire 2016 -2018, bring me back today to contemplate through a collection of photographs and sculptural work of a world full of details of the relationship between the father and the son and through which I reorganize the relationship between the two parties. In addition to that i collect through them images and what life has come to through innocent toys moving between soft fingers. When you stand where I am you can see yourself or your children as I see them now.
- My Sone’s World series, digital print on photo archival paper, 100 x 100 cm, ed of 3 + 2AP, 2021
- My son’s World, Mixed media sculpture, 80x80x 80 cm, 2021