CIFRA presents Nour Ouayda: The Poetry of the Unseen, a curated program dedicated to the Lebanese filmmaker and artist whose practice approaches cinema as a form of remembering. The exhibition brings together key works from 2019 to 2023, unfolding as a gradual immersion into Ouayda’s language of hesitation, fragmentation, and attentive looking.
Working across moving image, text, and sound, Ouayda creates films where no single element dominates. Images appear gradually, voices emerge like distant memories, and meaning develops through the proximity of fragments, pauses, and partially revealed gestures. Her works unfold slowly: memory remains uncertain, documentary images regain a sense of vulnerability, and political experience surfaces indirectly—through landscapes, interruptions, and what is left unsaid.
The exhibition follows a rhythmic progression. It begins with moments of intimacy and close observation, then expands into more layered narrative spaces before gradually moving toward interruption, loss, and reflection. This structure echoes the shifting logic of perception itself.
The program presents the following works: Every Morning (2021), The Secret Garden (2023), One Sea, 10 Seas (2019), Towards the Sun (2019), I Was Grateful the Wind Tore Out My Camera’s Microphone (2020), and Not All Things That Shine Are Beautiful (2022).
Ouayda’s cinema develops through hesitation and subtle shifts in attention. Meaning emerges between films, between images, and in the space between viewer and screen. Watching becomes an adjustment of sensitivity—toward background sounds, pauses, and the moment just before interpretation settles.
The exhibition can be viewed on the CIFRA platform.
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