Cardboard Dreams
Immersive installation · video · memory · migration
Cardboard Dreams is an immersive installation conceived by artist Tamara Abou Alwan. The project transforms a simple and fragile material — cardboard — into a space of memory, protection and transformation.
Through constructed volumes, video images, sound and performative presence, the installation evokes the provisional architectures we carry with us: shelters, boxes, imaginary rooms, transported memories, fragments of home and inner landscapes.
Cardboard is not treated only as a poor or temporary material. Here it becomes a sensitive surface: it receives traces, projections, gestures and stories. It speaks of displacement, waiting, childhood, reconstruction and the ability to create a world with almost nothing.
The audience is invited to enter a fragile but inhabited form. The installation acts as a threshold: between object and set, refuge and stage, personal memory and collective experience.
Cardboard Dreams will be presented on June 26 as part of Festival La Citadelle, at Fort Saint-Nicolas in Marseille.
- —Immersive installation with cardboard, video and sound
- —A work around memory, shelter and displacement
- —A fragile, poetic and transformable form
- —Presented at Festival La Citadelle, Fort Saint-Nicolas, on June 26