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goat house, 2021
2:42 min, video with sound
this experimental performance situated in the artist’s maternal grandmother’s goat house is overlaid with two bodies of text: a transcribed conversation between her father and his mother, and an amalgamation of different definitions of the root word ajam. the conversation about ‘ajamis’ plight from iran, conveyed in an ajami emirati vernacular from the grandmother and an emirati dialect from the father, aesthetically frames maitha’s isolated and curious physical exploration of the goat house as the sun sets outside. the definitions of ajam, in fus’ha (formal, i.e., “correct”) arabic, appear in a disorderly fashion, bombarding the explorative process in the same way that non-ajami perceptions of ajaminess have shaken their narratives and histories.
2. participation in “Proximities” exhibition at seoul nuseum of art (2025-ongoing)