Notes for a Guest Book

Notes for a Guest Book is an installation and foreword for an artist book following a month I spent as the Ace Hotel Toronto and Images Festival Artist-in-Residence 2023-2024.

This installation brings together fragments of images and texts which centre and consider a hotel as an omnipresent spectre always appearing as a witness, attesting to moments of gathering, remembering, collective action, celebration, war, and exile. Referencing documents from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive, the collected materials act as visual records documenting moments from the history of Palestine’s colonisation and articulating alternative voices of resistance.

Thanks to Jaclyn Quaresma, Magdalyn Asimakis, and Michael Nyarkoh
Photography: Darren Rigo

Person holding pixelated art samples while working on a printed art or book project on a large white sheet of paper.

Interior view of a modern art gallery featuring a large white wall with various displayed texts and images. The gallery has a concrete and dark ceiling with ambient lighting, and includes a small table with a lamp and chairs near the wall.

A white display wall with black text describing a photograph of a historical event. The wall is adjacent to a wooden baseboard and a brown tiled floor.