Water and Dust

Razan Sabbagh & Faezeh Nikoozad
Video and Sound Installation

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Water and Dust is a collaborative, research-based video and sound installation exploring the colonial, ecological, and economic entanglements between the Global North and South through the lens of water infrastructures. The work examines how waterways carry not only goods, but histories—of extraction, forced movement, ecological violence, and structural asymmetries.

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The installation consists of two videos and a sound piece. One video draws from the films of Iranian director Amir Naderi, made after the revolution and during the Iran-Iraq war—images steeped in dust, absence, and memory. The second video documents Hamburg Hafen, observing containers, ships, cranes, and the quiet violence of present-day trade. These images are accompanied by a layered sound composition—ambient port recordings, interviews, and sonic interventions—that reflect on construction, logistics, and the enduring imbalance between the Global North and South.

Water appears not as backdrop but as active agent: an archive, a medium, a threshold.

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