Video Installation by Leila Basma & Zaher Jureidini,
Commissioned by the Biennale Matter of Art Prague (Tranzit Czechia)
National Gallery of Prague (Vltrzni Palac)
National Gallery of Prague (Vltrzni Palac)
Placed side by side, parallel temporal layers unfold across three two-channel videos, moving between portraits, personal archives, and shifting relations to home, shaped by distance and the ongoing threats of erasure.
Between these layers, a fragmented conversation about distance and belonging emerges, in which displacement reshapes identity and new forms of solidarity take shape within a European context where migration and belonging are increasingly politicized. Here, For Now is at once an intimate portrayal of lives lived in-between and “forced” archival work, taking a stand on what is at risk from fading.Press Release here