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. I Just Need to Keep Moving


            Photography series, 2021Published under SWALIF’s “Encapsulated Vol. 1: Photoessays on Khaleejiness” (2021), “I Just Need to Keep Moving” is a series on wandering between spaces in search of identity, as well as a practice of identity. The ever-so-feverish need to be on a constant state of motion, not only to desperately establish notions of home but notions of the self, has felt mandatory for survival to me for years. 
        The more I question where I claim I’m from, and who I claim I am, the more I have felt the need to keep up with the pace of the space around me. 
        All of these photographs were shot in Electra Street in Abu Dhabi, which I had the privilege to grow up in for 10 years. It was only right for me to explore the space I was most familiar with, and what I consider to be the heart of Abu Dhabi itself. It is as much of an ode to Electra’s community as it is to the self.