My practice is grounded in research-creation, integrating creative inquiry with critical reflection through media art and installation. I investigate the relationships between memory, materiality, and life stories by working with digital image-making, archival research, oral histories, and material artifacts. In this context, materiality functions as a methodological lens through which memory is activated, examined, and reconfigured.

Life stories inherently implicate the world in which they unfold. Through artistic research, I explore how personal, cultural, and political narratives emerge through processes of making, and how creative practice can generate knowledge that is experiential, embodied, and speculative. Installation becomes a site where research findings are not simply represented, but enacted.

Images operate as forms of knowledge production within this practice. Like memory, they are dynamic and relational, shaping imaginative presents and possible futures while foregrounding the transformative potential of artistic research.

Myriam

Ammar Rafla

myriam.ammar.rafla@gmail.com