portfoliooooooooo i guess
if i have to read the clash of civilizations? one more time i will lose my mind, 2021
2:49, video with sound
this piece laments maitha’s experience of oscillating between her familial and collective spaces back in sharjah, uae and the academic spaces she is a part of at oxford. The placement of samuel huntington’s 1993 text that politicizes and essentializes the “Islamic civilization” over a playful, inaudible conversation with her family members produces a contrast meant to feel jarring in the way it criticizes and implicitly rejects western-centric perceptions of the artist’s and her family’s culture and socio-political context.