Lily Abichahine

Lily will take part in the Extended Cities Art Residency organized by Muse Multi Studios. The residency, which takes place in Sudan and Lebanon, seeks to identify the basic themes that have shaped every city's memory and present, with the aim of creating a visual approach to understanding one city from the perspective of others which, in turn, facilitates the appreciation of social, economic and political intersections. The project brings artists together to collaborate theoretically and practically in the production of artistic works that express these intersections. Lily will conduct a series of interviews with the inhabitants of Khartoum who will help her reconstruct a space that no longer exists. She will also meet with architects and urban planners and designers thereby gaining a better understanding of the urban fabric. Such activities are part of an oral archiving process that draws on verbal testimony in the absence of photographic testimony and visual archives.