Deconstruct the House   

Video and sound, 3 min 9 seconds, 2025  

Al-Faraouna chose to present Deconstruct the House as a response to Maroun Tomb’s lost work Houses of Bedouins. In her work, Al-Faraouna questions structures, authority and memory. Stemming from her personal experience, the artist dissects her grandmother’s house– which always felt narrow despite its spaciousness; and stifling despite providing shelter. Within The Lost Paintings exhibition, Al- Faraouna places her home – as wounded as it may be – not as an architectural structure but as a space that resists erasure. This project aims to deconstruct the home, not by observing it from outside, but by rebuilding it from within– via the voices of women, their stories, and the small threads that weave together home and identity. In the colonial context, where land is confiscated, architecture shaped for needs of domination and spatial planning used as a tool of dispossession and control, the private space of home becomes a battleground between memory and oblivion. 

Ruba Al-Faraouna is a multimedia artist, born in the Bedouin village of Shaqib al-Salam, and currently lives in Jerusalem. She has a BA in photography from the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem and is a member of Sada, an independent artists movement. 

Her work focuses on sound and visual research, where she utilizes multiple mediums, including photography, video, fashion and installations, in addition to contemporary approaches to presenting information. Al-Faraouna is determined to redefine Bedouin culture as a dynamic living culture that continues to thrive, as opposed to the prevailing colonial and romanticized perception. She does so by artistic means and by highlighting Bedouin female voices and documenting folk songs, lullabies, poetry and ululations to preserve oral histories as a form of resistance.