I See You Brightest in the Dark

I See You Brightest in the Dark is a large-scale, immersive intervention staged across the floors of a 1980s building in Riyadh's Malaz district. From basement to rooftop, illuminated threads traverse the darkened edifice, inviting the audience into a journey through loss, devotion, and surrender. Light spills through basement windows like a visitation, carrying messages from those we can no longer see; on the upper floors, the threads are archived onto a library of spools and then passed through a loom — the toil of trying to remake what has been fragmented, where some filaments inevitably tangle. On the rooftop they transcend into a single woven fabric: a beacon of devotion, a light for all to see.

Threads of intangible light are welcomed in, archived and loomed in multiple stages of dutiful and heartfelt acts of remembrance and acceptance.

“I miss you still with every visit.
I miss you so I wove you a garment of light and thread.”