Ali Ahmed Hassan Moahmed / Ali Zaraay

An interactive exhibition and web documentary that maps an eight years long journey with Haj Hani Salim - the artist’s befriended gate to the Nomadic Bedouins in Egypt’s Delta - where they collaboratively explore how new roads and bridges not only demolished what he knows of the city but also ironically blocked the nomad’s centuries-old movement in the Delta. The project looks into the urban memory of the Nomads to counter-map and express an alternative narrative of “the road” and the “home”. Both Hani and the artist “crawl on dust" and follow dreams and meanings that are as unstable and uncertain as dust, and they both become suffocated by the sprawl of urbanization. Through photography, maps, sound, texts, and archival materials, this project reimagines a different relationship between static photography and performance.