On Friday, June 6, at 7:30 p.m., MacDowell Downtown will present “Palimpest as Image” with visual artist Sama Alshaibi at Monadnock Center for History and Culture, 19 Grove St., Peterborough.

Alshaibi’s presentation will show how displacement, aftermath and fragmented memory shape her visual practice across photography, video and installation. Drawing from photographs and videos of deserts, borderlands and post-conflict cities, Alshaibi explores how landscapes and bodies become sites where histories are both buried and reimagined. 

Through layered images and experimental techniques, her work engages with questions of survival, perception and the stories people tell to make sense of disrupted time and space. The audience will be invited into a conversation about the role of the image in witnessing loss and imagining continuity, and how art can trace what remains even after so much has been erased. 

Born in Basra, Iraq, to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother, Alshaibi is based in the United States, where she is a regents professor of photography, video and imaging at the University of Arizona. She holds a BA in photography from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA in photography, video and media arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

If you go

Who: Visual artist Sama Alshaibi.

Date: Friday, June 6. 

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Monadnock Center for History and Culture, 19 Grove St., Peterborough.  Free and open to all. (Advance registration encouraged.)