SULIMAN ALSALEMAlmaskhotah tunnel
Almaskhotah tunnel
Loop Video installation
250CM. X 400CM
2023
“THE STATE OF BEING series”
Tunnel is a single-channel video installation, the result of the artist’s manipulation of a video of the Al-Maskhouta Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the mountains of Mecca leading to the Haram. By repeating the video, the work has a meditative and tense infinity, and the artist emphasizes this sense of endless liminal spaces by using the tunnel to suggest transition and movement. The installation takes the opening of the Wadi Namar Dam as its stage, giving it an illusory effect as well as a suitable context; even though the video has been edited to remove everything but the bright neon lights of the tunnel, the darkness of the shots renders the lights unimaginable, and the location provides a reassuring context for the abstract video.