I am a Kurdish-Syrian artist, born in 1986 in Qamishli, and residing in Germany since 2018, currently in the city of Celle. My relationship with art began at the moment I realized that the visible world alone could not satisfy my sense of wonder—that beyond the tangible, something more mysterious and astonishing awaited me. This feeling has always driven me to experiment and explore, as though seeking a form for the unspeakable or a language meant not to be understood but to be felt.
My artistic practice emerges from a state of play—not to produce effects, but to craft constellations charged with tension and sensual energy, which first disturb my own depths. An image must first surprise me before it can speak to anyone else. Only that which awakens me from within deserves to be presented to the gaze of the world.
For me, every experience begins with form—not as decoration, but as catalyst. An image should strike like an encounter with an unknown being: alien, magnetic, inescapable. This initial visual shock is not an effect but a riddle that defies explanation. The viewer is drawn into it before understanding it. Once inside, perception begins to tremble: the distance between the eye and the self dissolves. Perception becomes transformation. One cannot tell what has changed—only that change has occurred.
True art, as I understand it, does not proclaim its intentions nor does it seek to impress the viewer through obvious means. Once the viewer senses that the work seeks to impress, wonder turns into spectacle, and the deeper power of the art is lost. Like great acting, where one does not feel that someone is performing a role but instead finds oneself within the scene itself—so too should the work of art operate: drawing the viewer inward without dictating how they should think or feel. It allows them to discover its effect for themselves—immersed in an experience they cannot explain, yet which has undeniably carried them elsewhere.
To me, art is not merely a visible object but a multi-layered sensual and intellectual experience—capable of shaking perception and challenging the viewer’s consciousness on levels far beyond the immediate. A powerful work of art does not merely provoke a fleeting emotional response but resonates deeper—it intervenes in the unconscious, interacting with stored sensations, memories, and inner realms of meaning. From this arises an inner transformation—sometimes barely perceptible, sometimes radical—that opens new spaces for thinking, questioning, and understanding.
Such transformation is often individual and rare—and perhaps therein lies the genius of art: in its capacity to ignite scattered sparks of awareness, which over time condense into hidden currents. Currents that, one day, might overturn the deeply rooted orders without our knowing when or how. A quiet revolution of collective seeing, irreversible and beyond superficial intent.