khaled esguerra


art
  1. Heritage Legacy Authentic(2025)
  2. attempt: 20250629_01(2025)
  3. on (in)visibility(2025)
  4. 1501, 308 Al Hisn St(2025)
  5. How to take Possession of what Belongs to you(2024–)
  6. Walking Around Mina(2024)
  7. Do Concrete Towers Dream Of Golden Visas?(2023—)
  8. Abu Dha-me(2022)
  9. In Absentia (Reinterpretation)(2021)
  10. I Just Need to
    Keep Moving    (2021)

design
  1. MAGHRAS: A Farm for Experimentation(2025)
  2. Abu Dhabi (Dis)connected(2025)
  3. MINA MEMORY(2024—)
  4. Spaces that Remain(2024)
  5. Nesmah(2024)
  6. AUS Posters(2023-2024)
  7. MAQAM: Hashel Al Lamki(2023)
  8. Sweating Assets: On
    Climate Conditioning
    and Ecology    (2023)
  9. REEL PALESTINE at Bait
    Al Shamsi    (2023)
  10. BED SPACE AVAILABLE(2022) 
  11. Migrant Journal(2022)


about
  1. artist+educator+designer
  2. BSc visual communication @ AUS
  3. from+based in abu dhabi 
  4. CV available upon request

let’s work →

5. How to take Possession of
what Belongs to you


            Photography Series, 2024— I went inside one of 30+ abandoned houses cordoned off in an area in Abu Dhabi after its inhabitants were evicted within short-notice, documenting and bearing witness to what was left behind, and by who. Coming across archival family portraits, employment letters, and health records. Decaying decorations in kitchens and bathrooms attempting to make place out of space.
       Before I showed myself out, I stepped on a plasticky object. I looked down to what it revealed itself to be a DVD case of a televangelist series titled “How to take Possession of what Belongs to you”. I took it with me before leaving the scene.
        Of all the houses in the area that have been evicted in that two-month timespan, they are now boarded up and sealed off with bricks and plywood sheets. The cycle of urban redevelopment continues.
        The resulting photo series is an ongoing exploration of two questions: what truly belongs to me, and how it might be claimed. Whether addressing my own bedroom, another person’s house, a street block, or the city at large, the work negotiates what claim I have to the city as someone born and raised there my entire life.