After Image - ما بَعد الصورة

After Image brings together two archives, one digital and one personal, and continues the long-term project Pixels of Memories. The work originates from an extended search through Google Street View imagery of Iraq, where fragmented and unstable images form an unintended archive shaped by war, technology, and power.

Rather than focusing on what is visible, the project engages with absence: pixelation, glitches, erased bodies, and gaps in the image. These disruptions reveal how visibility is not neutral but regulated by technical systems that determine what can be seen and what disappears.

This visual language extends into the artist’s family archive, where damaged photographs from the Iraq war carry physical traces of destruction and loss. The project reflects on what comes after what Harun Farocki describes as ‘operational images’, shifting toward images that carry Cracks, absence, and residue.

After Image unfolds between these two conditions, where images shift from representation to fragile residues. The work reflects on how memory persists through fragments, and how the past survives as a layered field of presence and absence.