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Bassam Al-Sabah

Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon, 2019

Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon was produced in relation to war, unrealized childhood fantasies, and representation within globalized media. The film imagines the traumatized body as a functioning time machine where gaps between timelines and glitches cause the present-day body to wane and is replaced by the body’s memory of past trauma. The film weaves a narrative from mental time travel, episodic future thinking (a projection of the self into the future to pre-experience an event), and PTSD. 

MediumColour video, with sound
Duration Duration: 18:32 min
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Purchase, 2021
Item NumberIMMA.4192.004
Copyright © Bassam Al-Sabah
For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Bassam Al-Sabah, Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon, 2019, Colour video, with sound, Duration: 18:32 min, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 2021

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

About the Artist

Bassam Al-Sabah

Bassam Issa Al-Sabah attended Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. Al-Sabah works with digital animation, painting, sculpture and textiles to convey visions of war, resistance and perseverance and explore themes of displacement, nostalgia and personal mythology. Al-Sabah was awarded the RHA Graduate Studio Award in 2017 and the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Graduate Residency Award in 2019.

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