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Bassam Al-Sabah

Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon2019

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. 

MediumVideo on Blu-ray
Duration Duration: 18:32 min
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Purchase, 2021
Item NumberIMMA.4192
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Bassam Al-Sabah, Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon, 2019, Video on Blu-ray, 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

    • About the Artist

    Bassam Al-Sabah

    Based in Belfast and Dublin, Bassam Al-Sabah works with digital animation, painting, sculpture and textiles to convey intricate visions of war, resistance and perseverance. Themes of displacement, nostalgia and personal mythology are explored through reference to Japanese anime cartoons, which were dubbed into Arabic and broadcast throughout the Middle East from the 1980s to today. Al-Sabah attended Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and was awarded the RHA Graduate Studio Award in 2017 and the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Graduate Residency Award in 2019.

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