AhmadBaba أحمد بابا
Multidisciplinary Performance Art 
Dance & movement therapy
 

The “Walls of Hasra حيطان الحسرة” is an exploration of the embodiment of loss through architectural memory, treating walls as archives of grief. It considers walls, buildings, and any standing architecture as vessels that hold inscriptions of trauma, communicated through writings, symbols, and visual marks—graffiti, colors, scratches, or other forms of expression. These inscriptions form a shared language of grief, occupying a liminal space between collective memory and personal loss, articulating what often cannot be put into words. Grief is universal, yet in the Arab context, it often becomes a defining identity, traveling across borders with those who have left their homelands. Grief has always sought surfaces to cling to. This project asks: what happens when there are no walls left to bear our grief—when we find ourselves in wall-less landscapes, overwhelmed by the enormity of the sorrow within us? The work reflects on how grief persists and seeks form, even in the absence of physical surfaces to receive it.