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

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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.