ZKM | Karlsruhe

Open­ing: Unfa­mil­iar Ceilings

Amna Elamin, visu­al sto­ry­teller
Lan­guage: English

»Unfa­mil­iar Ceil­ings« is Amna Elam­in’s nar­ra­tive of a per­son­al journey—an uproot­ing caused by war. The work fol­lows the qui­et, often invis­i­ble traces that con­flicts leave on our lives and change our under­stand­ing of home. We cor­dial­ly invite you to the opening!

Under unfa­mil­iar ceil­ings, the world con­tracts and expands again – per­me­at­ed by mem­o­ry, fear, and frag­ile hope. The instal­la­tion work reminds us of what war takes from us: the cer­tain­ty of secu­ri­ty, the famil­iar­i­ty of those spaces that were sacred to us, and the feel­ing of belong­ing that we believed to be cer­tain. It speaks of depar­ture and arrival, of paths through uncer­tain­ty, and of the long, inner work of carv­ing out a new exis­tence. This reflec­tion reveals resilience, as well as the weight of mem­o­ry and the tire­less search for close­ness and secu­ri­ty in a world that has become foreign.

Amna Elamin is a visu­al sto­ry­teller and cre­ative researcher. In her work, she explores polit­i­cal inequal­i­ties, col­lec­tive mem­o­ry, and the eth­i­cal dimen­sions of human expe­ri­ence. She stud­ied infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy and math­e­mat­ics at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Khar­toum in Sudan and has since com­bined ana­lyt­i­cal pre­ci­sion with inter­dis­ci­pli­nary per­spec­tives. At the inter­sec­tion of visu­al jour­nal­ism, dig­i­tal art, and social engage­ment, she devel­ops a prac­tice that com­bines crit­i­cal reflec­tion with cre­ative power.

A project with­in the frame­work of “Fel­low Travellers”