Extended Cities: Khartoum – Beirut Residency Project2023 / 2025 “Aren’t maps just a silly joke we agreed to believe?” Safia Elhillo / Borders – lighter 3 Extended Cities is an intersectional artistic residency that explores the relationship between countries and cities and the themes on which they are based, including history, literature, and memory, focusing […]
Short Residency2025 In 2025, The Muse’s work focuses on borders and intersections from its current location in Cairo. In light of the successive crises affecting several countries in the region—such as Sudan, Palestine, Yemen, and Syria—Cairo has become a crossroads for forced displacement, and a site for rethinking the meaning of belonging, homeland, and stability. […]
Extended Cities: Khartoum – PortSudan – Cairo Residency Project2024 Extended Cities is an intersectional artistic residency that explores the relationship between countries and cities and the themes on which they are based, including history, literature, and memory, focusing on the theme of construction and demolition. “Extended Cities, Khartoum – Port Sudan – Cairo”, studies from […]
Decaying Bank: Reproducing Khartoum Visually Residency Project2022 – 2024 Khartoum at night, photo by Mozafar Ramadan, 2022 WHAT IS LITERATURE? “There was nothing left but the small shrouds that were stacked on the boards in the width of the walls, as if they were mugs containing the remains of the dead.” Jean Paul Sartre Decaying […]
