khaled esguerra


art
  1. Walking Around Mina(2024)
  2. Do Concrete Towers Dream Of Golden Visas?(2023—)
  3. Abu Dha-me(2022)
  4. In Absentia (Reinterpretation)(2021)
  5. I Just Need to
    Keep Moving    (2021)

design
  1. MINA MEMORY(2024—)
  2. Nesmah(2024)
  3. AUS Posters(2023-2024)
  4. MAQAM: Hashel Al Lamki(2023)
  5. Sweating Assets: On
    Climate Conditioning
    and Ecology    (2023)
  6. REEL PALESTINE at Bait
    Al Shamsi    (2023)
  7. BED SPACE AVAILABLE(2022) 
  8. Migrant Journal(2022)


about
  1. artist+designer
  2. B.Sc. in visual communication @ AUS ‘24
  3. from+based in abu dhabi 
  4. CV available upon request

let’s work →

3. Abu Dha-me


            Cyanotype series, 2022Commissioned by Art Jameel via Farah Fawzi Ali for Jameel Arts Centre, as part of the Youth Takeover 2022 exhibition “smol”, “Abu Dha-me” is a fictional reconstruction of the city I grew up in as a means to reclaim it, based on four different neighborhoods I grew up around.
        I grew up around Hamdan, Electra, and Khalidiyah, in that order. I went to Khalifa A for school, in which I was (at one point) the only Filipino among 600 other boys. Through becoming the master cartographer and urban planner, I question existing power structures and hierarchies by perceiving them from a bird’s eye view, then renaming said neighborhoods and landmarks. It is not a rewriting of collective history, but the narration of a personal migrant history; a demand of my city being my home. 
        The installation at “smol” featured distorted field recordings from each area via a sound shower on loop, as well as chalk writing of my lived history in each area. Viewers were given freedom to interact and take up space via chalk.