Dancing Edifices

Digital prints on Japanese paper, 50 × 70 cm.

This series of digital works by Raghad Resres reconfigures the architecture of Palestinian refugee camps in East Amman through the visual disruption of their original structural forms. The works evoke a sensation of visually-induced motion, generated through the re-composition of the camps’ spatial configurations, an effect in which visual stimuli produce a perception of movement without actual physical motion.

This distortion operates as an artistic methodology that interrogates embodied experiences within an architectural framework shaped by the ongoing settler-colonial condition in Palestine. It foregrounds the ways in which these structures influence perception, movement, and how these effects are reflected in the details of everyday life.

Raghad Resres

Raghad Resres is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist whose practice is grounded in research. She holds an MFA from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and a BA in Literature and Cultural Studies from the Hashemite University in Jordan. During her graduate studies, she focused on researching embodied experiences in relation to material and immaterial spaces shaped by colonialism and displacement, with particular attention to women’s experiences within these contexts, drawing from her own lived experience in the Mohammad Amin Palestinian refugee camp in East Amman.

Her work has been presented across a range of contexts, from refugee camps to local and international solo and group exhibitions, including in Sweden, Lithuania, and Jordan. She has also participated in several residencies and has received multiple grants supporting artistic and research-based practices.