Conversations of Rust and Fabric - installation/ mixed media

May 2013

" The Conversation " is a collaborative piece done by Leon D. and Tamadhar for a group exhibition, where they both decided to translate materials thought to reflect Bahrain. The Piece began having the artists finding and translating these materials, weaved palm tree leaf and rusty saw blade, into derivatives of words linked to their personal experiences and thoughts then illustrated over collage of old pictures of Bahrain as a foundation for the changing conversation. The piece has a film which shows how the artists had that conversation illustrated together silently with rather random imaginations and possibilities of the past, current and future.

Diary of A Mad Arabian Woman - Online Zine

September 2012

A zine (small circulation, non commercial publication) that talks about the contradictions and uprising arguments in the middle east in the eyes of a young lady. The publication tip-toes on several topics between culture and religion in a funny- sarcastic way, expressing a person who is struggling to define the line between what's right and wrong.

To view the full zine click on the following link:

http://issuu.com/tamadher/docs/domaw_-_final_issuu?e=0

“From a time a building is completed, its destruction begins” F. Gutheim

In architecture, we deal with spaces as building projects, adding concepts and stories to make sense of our designs. In renovation projects we tend to either revive the stories or add new ones; however we do not include how a building ended its life-cycle. This is a series of architectural and design drawings not of structure and function, but of memories and emotions. Its construction lines are crossroads of space and time. 

Every person hides away their precious things in treasure boxes. A treasure box could be a bag, a wooden box or even a locked drawer that holds memorabilia; things that trigger memories, belonging, they are things we cherish.

In my grandmother’s house, days before it was to be demolished, I found an old brown leather suitcase belonging to my uncle, and instantly I knew it contained exciting things waiting to be discovered. I found clues to the mystery of who my uncle was as a young man, in love, with his whole life before him. Rediscovering that my uncle had an artistic soul brought back beautiful memories during the midst of a heart-aching event.

My uncle kept this suitcase for years even after he had moved out, and although it was found by another person it was still precious. A question is provoked here: Can you let go of your treasure box; yet still treasure its contents? 

Mixed media - Live Perforemance

March 2012

Living in a time when words like “religion” and “human rights” are being abused; politics became the main theme subject for the young and the old...
“al-sha’b yureed” or “people demand” has been extremely popular until it reached a point where it became an expression for the individual rights rather than group rights... The piece demonstrates this conflict between “I” and “the people” and how “alsha’b yureed” has been abused to represent rather individual demands for the price of the others’. 

About the Project

This moleskin sketchbook is part of AtWork project. It starts from a collection of “art notebooks”, unique works of art created in Moleskine notebooks by different artists. AtWork is a platform that starts with an online exhibition, featuring notebooks donated by various authors/ artists. The aim is to imagine a new way to think of exhibitions, to focus on the process of art and design where ideas are taking forms and developed rather than the end result.

AtWork allows the artworks to circulate with a new free and shared user licence (CC BY-SA), while experimenting with new touring exhibition formats, promoting critical debate in various art contexts and organizing workshops with local communities.

The Concept

Adapting the notion of "gathering point" as a main theme for the project; I have chosen my gathering point to be the sketchbook itself; where everyone is linked and connected to everyone else. The process which started with interviewing people and writing some stories where every page represent 10 years of their lives helped me to understand how people summarize themselves to a stranger and in a short time. The pages for each person are then stitched and linked to someone else’s page showing how physically can be attached together through common things.