Pixels of Memories
- Publisher
- Skinnerboox
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9788894895919
- Specifications
- Softcover
17 × 28,4 cm
Designed by Anna Breit
Texts by Hanar Hupka
English/Arabic
The book project Pixels of Memories / بكسلات الذاكرة engages with memory, erasure and the invisibility of historical experience through the language of digital imagery. It constructs a fragmented visual narrative in which gaps, distortions and errors become central elements of meaning, transforming absence into a form of testimony.
The work is based on an extensive survey of Iraq through Google Maps, where hundreds of screenshots have been collected and assembled into an archive. Unlike other regions, many of the 360-degree views available online are not produced by the platform itself but uploaded by private users, creating uneven visual coverage and unexpected ruptures in representation.
Within this material, the artist focuses particularly on glitches, omissions and discontinuities that appear throughout the digital landscape. These visual interruptions are not treated as technical failures, but as revealing moments that expose the limits of visibility and the constructed nature of online cartography.
The book becomes a space of reading and decoding, where viewers are invited to navigate layered images and reconstruct meaning from fragments, absences and digital noise.