4'33''

Video Installation, An Observation of a Non-Happening, 2025–2026

Spiegelung Ajouri 2026 copy 2

spiegelung

A wrecked car from the destroyed suburbs of Damascus — mirrored, printed, and overpainted on a prepared panel. The mirroring reconstructs what was once an

War-damaged interior surface in Damascus, photographed by Sami Ajouri for the Habitats series, project Abstract War, 2025

abstract war

Abstract War is an extended body of photographic work capturing the suburbs of Damascus in 2025, a few months after the fall of the Assad regime and after fifteen years of brutal civil war. Constant bombardment destroyed many districts in and around Syrian cities. These landscapes of rubble still stand as living witnesses to the horrors and absurdity of this war.

Abstract War Cars 2025 img 6107 scaled

Car corps

“Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his

Waste of War Damascus 2025 img 3619 scaled

Waste

Waste of War – Central waste sorting site, Damascus, 2025. Photographed a few months after the fall of the Assad regime, this series documents a

sami ajouri photography _ syria

The flood

During the Syrian Civil War, in a calculated effort to suppress regions of rebellion, the regime blocked the flow of water from the Queiq River,

sami ajouri photography

Raised in the mud

The refugee camps along the Turkish-Syrian border in 2012 were meant to be a refuge, but they were little more than rows of makeshift tents