Cooking Adobo at the Hea(r)t of 25.2048° N, 55.2708° E
Art Dubai
Curated by Munira Alsayegh
2019
Cooking Adobo at the Hea(r)t of 25.2048° N, 55.2708° E
Cooking Adobo at the Hea(r)t of 25.2048° N, 55.2708° E is a series of self-portraits aimed to materialize how I was shaped by the span of time I have lived and worked in Dubai. This work aims to introspect on questions like “where are you from,” and the violence that comes with it.
While it is a project which questions relationships between a developing multicultural city and myself, it is all the more a journey inwards into where one belongs and what it means to isolate oneself in shared spaces — preserving the sense of home, cooking for one and surviving the everyday.