Donja Nasseri

I'm going to play with it at home (and feel like a pharaoh)

Donja Nasseri's work often focuses on the exploration of tradition and change. Her approach involves engaging with marginalized communities, valuing their voices, and fostering a collective dialogue about the impacts of colonialism on mental health, as well as our understanding of identity and trauma. By reexamining figures and symbols from the past—particularly from ancient Egyptian history—she tranlates their emancipatory aspects into the present and gives them renewed visibility. Through this process of recontextualizing historical and personal memories, Nasseri aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the past and its influence on the present.

For this project, she plans to create 3D scans of objects originating from Egypt (and other countries) that are now housed in collections in German musuems. In doing so, she documents the complexity of these objects and their charged histories. Finally, she will assemble these elements in a fragmented way and overlay them with stories appropriated by Disney.