AI-Sawaber complex

Tarek Al-Ghoussein’s work explores the boundaries between landscape photography, self-portraiture and performance art. Al-Ghoussein chooses his locations in much the same way a film director does, moving between abstraction and the specific circumstances found in particular places. Al-Ghoussein’s current project documents the vestiges of the lives of former tenants of the Al-Sawaber, a government housing complex in Kuwait City now slated for demolition. His photographs provide intimate views into once private worlds through portrayals of apartment interiors and objects, which tell stories without longing for what once was or lamenting what could have been.