Mohamed Hafez On How Multiple Identities Inform His Art
The sculptor on displacement, memory, and why education is his second studio.
Mohamed Hafez builds miniature worlds inside suitcases — streetscapes of Damascus rendered in architectural salvage and paint. Each piece is a memory he can close and carry.
On Identity
“I am Syrian. I am American. I am an architect. I am a refugee. When people ask me which one I am, I say: all of them, at the same time, and none of them completely. The work comes from that space in between.”