Abdalsalam Alhaj

Abdel Salam will take part in the Artist-Scholar Residency at the Collaborative Museum in Berlin, Germany, to develop his multimedia project “The Last Effendi.” The project explores memory, absence, and identity through a journey across African, Asian, and European ports, retracing the footsteps of his late father, a sailor in the Sudanese maritime lines, using his sea journal as a guide. The residency includes discussion sessions and cultural events focusing on transformation, memory, and displacement, culminating in an art presentation that showcases the project’s findings within a critical framework reflecting on collective memory and cultural heritage in post-conflict contexts.