School as a Model — Basmah Felemban

School as a model, 2024Videogame on monitor

Videogame School Architecture

This game is a walk-through into a 3D model of the artist’s high school, named the 27th. Each room features a playlist of videos posted by students commemorating the end of the school year-- the only time of the year that girls are allowed to bring a camera into school, becoming the only documentation available of schools through the students’ eye.Felemban says: “This is where I experienced the darkest moments of my life, when I realized that if I stare at a fan long enough, sounds around me blur, and if I escape long enough people stop noticing. Knowledge was pain at that time in my life, the more I knew outside school, the more my unaddressed learning difficulties became apparent. “