A Myth is A collective Dream

A Myth is a Collective Dream, 2021School desks, mdf, and Augmented reality
100*180*80 cm

Video Augmented Reality

A portal to the matrix of Magadir, the artist’s sci-fi world, a space she builds to understand her lost family history, the role of imagination in rewriting it, and the ways humans have resorted to bridging the gaps in the collective memory.

Basmah Felemban presents a multimedia installation that explores physical and mathematical existential concepts in her worldbuilding process, creating a reality based on a series of found videos from the internet, diagrams, audio files, and 3d models that can be accessed through augmented reality.

The foundational setting of the world she builds, and its laws reside on the Gömböc, a shape created in response to the question if there can be a geometric figure centered on only one equilibrium point and one disequilibrium point, resembling the state of dissociation that causes lost memories.