Experience ‘partition: a line and its memory’

As regulars at their local shisha lounge, Talib and Baba missed the tangible puff-and-pass of a hookah hose between friends. When social distancing came into play, they shifted their lifestyle to accommodate virtual shisha meetings, which they called ShishaTime. Through these conversations and reflections, Dead Projects was born. The duo has since continued their collaboration through a series of online exhibitions and talks that routinely invite other artists into their collaboration.

This January, for the first time ever, Dead Projects is extending their virtual exhibitions to the real world, offering an in-person experience at the DFZ where the public can engage with their work first hand. 'partition: a line and its memory' will feature a physical installation and complimenting 3D-rendered model navigable via computer, tablet, and phone. 

In partition: a line and its memory, the Dead Projects delves into the profound impact of borders—political, cultural, and social—on our lives, featuring works by Mahmoud Alhaj and Kasra Goodarznezhad. Through Alhaj’s digital collages of architectural violence in Palestine and Goodarznezhad’s AI-generated memory maps, the exhibition imbues cartography with subjectivity, exploring how alternative narratives can be created outside of the hegemonic rule of borders and what lies between them.