virtual group exhibition 🎧 "Bodies Resonating Beyond Entities", 🎧 part of the "Ecological Bodies, Empirical Sounds, 2024" program. The exhibition explores the complex relationship between sound and the environment and how it shapes our language, performativity, and addresses themes of identity and memory. Through a variety of sound works, performance, video, and text-based artworks, the exhibition opens a space to explore how sonic and listening practices reshapes our concepts of body, nature, and language in a contemporary, multidisciplinary context
Video Performance Artist
a program supported by Tandem Amwaj and guided by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Asmaa Essakouti, and Brandon LaBelle.
Presented The Last Journey of the Abu Qir Train, a video performance exploring the intersection of movement and sound in Alexandria’s transforming urban fabric.
It examines the impact of changes caused by demolition and construction development on memory and body.
This project arrives in alignment with the termination of the Abu Qir train station, which marks the end of a long chapter in its history. A history that has spanned many years and was once an integral part of Alexandia's auditory and spiritual fabrics.
The work consists of four movements that reflect the rapid transformation of the city: Construction, Demolition, Resistance, and Change. The accompanying music features the sounds of street birds perched on the Tree of Change and the sound of the now-stopped Abu Qir train station’s level crossing. The composition symbolizes the divide between the past and the future, between what was and what is yet to come
Salma Elhusseiny Ebada
Born in Alexandria, Egypt. Received her B.A. in Architecture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University. Ebada works at the intersection of performance, visual arts, and urban research, investigating themes of memory, movement, and spatial transformation. Her practice blends bodily expression with experimental and cross-disciplinary performance practices, often rooted in fieldwork and community engagement.As part of the exhibition Bodies Resonating Beyond Entities (2024), Ebada presents The Last Journey of the Abu Qir Train—a video performance that incorporates contemporary movement to explore the relationship between sound and the body within Alexandria’s evolving urban space. The work reflects on the emotional and spatial impact of demolition and construction, coinciding with the termination of the Abu Qir train station, a landmark that once formed part of the city’s auditory and spiritual fabric.
