Dia Mrad: Works;
The World of Objects
Drawing from photography, installation, and writing, the project investigates how non-human actors — from pipes, cables, tanks, and shadows to more abstract systems like policy, absence, or ruin — participate in shaping collective life. These objects are not represented as passive remnants, but as active agents, with the capacity to reveal, destabilize, or even propose alternative civic arrangements.
Conceptually informed by philosophies of material agency and the politics of infrastructure, The World of Objectsimagines new forms of witnessing and accountability, where the mute debris of crisis or the overlooked fixtures of governance are brought to the foreground. In this framework, objects do not simply symbolize social or political forces — they are those forces, made visible and photographable.
The project is developing into a platform that not only observes but also monitors and engages systems of governance — assembling visual, textual, and spatial evidence toward more inclusive civic imaginaries. The long-term goal is not only to document breakdown, but to ask: What might it mean to give voice to things? To design with them? To think of objects not as symbols of collapse, but as tools for reconstruction?
Exhibitions
The Road to Reframe
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09–10.2023
Virtual Exhibition:
Tradition of Change