PARIS PHOTO 2025

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present a booth featuring works by Sama Alshaibi, continuing her latest solo exhibition, طرس Tterss. This body of work includes mixed-media collages and video art that reimagine Baghdad’s transformation through spatial, material, and technological fragments, narrating the story of a place and its people. Superimposed layers of imagery immerse the city’s ruins and infrastructures in a deeper narrative of alienation and memory. Alshaibi engages with the tension between historical depth and present-day modernisation, emphasising complexities that remain in the aftermath of war. Using LiDAR technology alongside her photography and archival material, she constructs compositions that explore the elasticity of imagining versus depicting. The result is a speculative space where the historical Arab city becomes a microcosm for global crises, a collision of past and present, where modernisation, conflict, exile, and renewal are intricately interwoven.