Yara Alheswani

An urban documentary project in an innovative, artistic context, “Suspended” aims to read a city from unfamiliar angles and analyze its reality artistically. The work focuses on Jaramana, a city that seems to hover outside of time in a state of waiting, evoking the absurd. The result will be a visual diary of the city with some texts. After all, why not give a city a human consciousness to write a diary? A city suspended in time is hard to quantify using the normal chronological scales. Its days are not sequenced in any particular way. We can read them in any order we like, as to the city the days are equal and each day is “suspended,” waiting for a calendar. The plastic artist Lama al-Qura has teamed up with the curator, Yara Alheswani, in this attempt to fuse critical architectural and visual arts perspectives into a vision of the city. Other team members include people from diverse academic and artistic backgrounds: in architecture, urban planning, art, literature, sociology and other disciplines.