Dust scales (working title)

Emerging from a collaboration with an archaeological mission in Saqqara, this series integrates the excavation documentation with a subjective take on the socio-cultural realities of Cairo's ever-evolving metropolitan landscape

Dust scales (working title) captures central Egypt as a land of continual rewriting, where preservation, progress, and resilience coexist. Initially focused on documenting the Spanish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Saqqara and the lives intertwined with it, the project’s vision expands to embrace broader realities beyond the excavation.

It's a diary project that imagines the urban landscape and surroundings of the Cairo metropolitan area—a region as ancient as civilization itself—as a living, breathing text. Through the collaboration documenting the archaeological work, the series explores themes of memory and transformation, examining how life unfolds through a continual dialogue between its ancient roots and modern realities.

The ongoing work aims to examine the politics of heritage preservation in a region shaped by colonial legacies, national identity, and global tourism, questioning whose histories are preserved and whose are obscured.