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Dear all! We are very happy that tomorrow we will have a guest lecture by Daniah Alsaleh! Thursday, 22.01, at 10:00 am in Room 101. Daniah will introduce her work within the framework of the Backbone of Photography seminar. Please come and let’s hear Danish’s work approach and engage in a discussion together! Daniah Alsaleh’s work reflects on memory and cultural conditioning: how messages and beliefs are absorbed and delivered via media and other networks. She questions behavioural patterns and paradigms in the everyday, examining  things that we take for face value, by destabilising the mainstream assumptions that form the basis of this conditioning. Her work deconstructs accepted meanings and suggest alternative positions. She looks at the ordinary, the mundane, the ubiquitous of things by looking into  cultural tropes,  memory, connectedness and division. Through different materials and computation, Alsaleh uses analogies to establish ways of reading and unearth unexpected perspectives. The work is duplicitous: behind its aesthetics lies a commentary on human fragility, insecurity, and vulnerability We look forward to seeing you! Karolina und Susanne