Thana Faroq

Extending from film into spatial installation, Imagine Me Like a Country of Love is an experimental project that asks what happens when we disturb the memories we leave behind. Emerging from the artist’s return to Yemen after nearly a decade of absence, the work moves between archival family photographs, contemporary footage, text, animation, and sound to explore how memory is reshaped by distance, loss, and return.

The project is rooted in a personal and intergenerational dialogue with the artist’s mother, through which lost family photographs were gathered and revisited. Rather than offering a linear account, the work unfolds as a fragmented meditation on belonging, grief, and the emotional landscapes carried across places.

Imagine Me Like a Country of Love allows images, voices, and gestures to accumulate and dissolve across space. Viewers are invited to move through memory not as something fixed or retrievable, but as something that shifts with each body that passes through it—unstable, intimate, and alive.