Confined Narratives

Confined Narratives is an immersive installation of over seventy small metal chambers arranged in concentric circles around a central watchtower. The formation evokes both order and captivity, echoing the architectures of surveillance and control.

Seven chambers resonate with stories of individuals affected by enforced disappearances, expressed through haunting audio and fragmented visuals drawn from regions marked by conflict and political instability. The remaining chambers stand silent and empty, embodying absence and the unresolved.

At the top of the watchtower, four miniature chambers contain screens showing slow, deliberate movements of my body—a reflection on endurance, isolation, and the long silence that follows disappearance. Viewers are invited to look through narrow slits, creating an intimate yet unsettling act of seeing.

Through its interplay of sound, silence, and structure, Confined Narratives invites reflection on the unseen, asking how resilience endures beneath layers of control and silence.