Latent Now

It is said that place fixes memory. But what happens when a place changes rapidly and utterly? The series Latent Now studies the collective memory of Qatar that over the past decades has undergone a complete transformation – from the poverty of the pearl industry to a land of enormous wealth grounded in its oil and natural gas export. Images of cloaked women are predominant in this series, where the person behind remains hidden and strangely transient, just like the ever-changing city that meanders between collective memories of different cultures and between what is ephemeral and what is real. In a country subject to such rapid change that each generation is born into an era utterly different from the previous one, the artists anchor their subjects in the palate of memories and stories.