Shell Fables ~ a Curious Cabinet of Beings & Becoming 2022

Curious things survived decades of filmmaker Salma Ahmad Caller’s English mother and Egyptian father’s lives - juxtaposing things that seem to belong to ‘opposing’ cultures creates strangeness and blurs boundaries. These Things are also witnesses to strange and forbidden encounters across divides created by ideologies, imagined and constructed difference, power and desire. Each thing acting within the cabinet is a disruptive fragment that can never really be pinned down or catalogued. Any notion of nationality, identity or fixity is constantly disturbed, any attempts to curate wholeness or completeness fails.