About the Project

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Mirage Route is part of the long-term research project Seven Decades in Motion, tracing the movement of the artist's family across Palestine and the Arab Gulf following the 1967 Naksa.

Beginning with an archival photograph of the artist's uncle reflected in his truck's side mirror, the installation reconstructs routes once travelled by family members who worked as truck drivers across the region.

Through newly recorded video, family archives, oral histories, maps, and historical photographs, the work explores how memory survives through landscapes, roads, and repeated journeys.The installation places two roads into dialogue. Ahead of the viewer unfolds a contemporary Palestinian road shaped by checkpoints, waiting, and restricted movement.

Reflected in a truck side mirror appears an uninterrupted desert highway filmed while retracing the family's historic routes through Saudi Arabia. Between projection and reflection, past and present occupy the same space, transforming the mirror into a passage between generations, landscapes, and memory.