Portfolio
Echo of the Familiar 2025
“In every dream, I mend a dream—and I dream.”
I reconstruct a cherished dream: my parents’ bedroom in the 1970s.
From the bed flows the cotton of memories, a metaphor for a colorful journey woven into fabric that cradles a rich life, overflowing with authenticity: faces and places, letters and words, companionable sounds and family gatherings, outings and travels, mischievous secrets, and simple hobbies that have quietly faded with time.
All that remains of this past is the dream itself, spinning its continuity within a mended weave, until the quilt stitches successive eras together like dreams born from one another. And in every dream, I mend a dream… and I dream.
2025
I forgot to grow up 2023
A visual work rooted in memory and nostalgia as formative materials. Through color, movement, texture, and cinematic framing, the work navigates the space between past and present, where time intersects with place and imagination meets reality. The experience unfolds through a quiet, contemplative visual language that draws on film still–like compositions, reconfiguring personal memory within a contemporary framework and inviting the viewer into an intimate process of reflection and emotional engagement.
Doll house 2021
The comfort of childhood and zero responsibility. Snuggling down into the abyss of better days and easy living? past itself is an idealized version of something we want it to be< not what we know as reality>
The way we remember memories is constantly distorted. By recalling a memory of the past, you are remembering it as your brain has chosen to distort it, not by the actuality of its events.
2021
Artist Portrait 2020
This project is an online exhibition created during the pandemic, responding to the collective stillness, the slowdown of artistic activity, and limited resources. It reimagines fellow artists through drawn portraits, placing them in cinematic roles and parallel lives inspired by iconic films, transforming isolation into a shared visual narrative that bridges fine art and cinema.
2020
Messages From There 2018
A series that explores symbolic and material messages surrounding partnership and civil marriage, as well as the impact of differing religious and class backgrounds within shared life relationships. The work is presented through a fantastical, imaginative framework, employing a satirical and narrative-driven approach suited to a contemporary visual context.
Wait On Red 2017
A series of social issues is addressed through a satirical and comedic lens, influenced by the cinematic style of director Woody Allen. The sense of absurdity and dialogue-driven intensity characteristic of his screenplays is reflected in the compositions and color choices. Among the key themes explored—once absent from the Saudi social landscape—are cinema, women’s right to drive, freedom of dress, and women’s empowerment.
What Ever Will Be 2016
a self-portrait that treats the mask as a tool of passage rather than concealment. Facial features are reconfigured through a measured sense of irony, where adornment intersects with distortion, and femininity merges with disguise, pointing to a phase of negotiating identity rather than denying it. The mask functions not as protection from the outside, but as an intelligent language of maneuvering, testing the boundaries between strength and performance within a world that demands constant display over unguarded presence.
Honey.. I’m home ! 2015
A body of work examining the physical presence of the man as the structural pillar of the home and his symbolic role as a source of security. Between these two meanings emerges a locally rooted character, dressed in traditional attire—a sleeveless undershirt and trousers—engaged in rest and midday naps amid surrounding chaos. Through a satirical lens, Nour narrates stereotypical notions of the Eastern man in relation to culture, digital communication, and the rapid transformations of contemporary life, exploring how he responds to these shifts while choosing the house as a place of residence, even as his spirit inhabits another realm.
Aqua Shades 2014
You will not see seas or oceans in this series, yet their shadows wash over the paintings. There are no vivid or dazzling colors—only the tones of survival in a time of war. The scorching summer of 2014, the summers of Gaza, Syria, and Iraq, and distant yet relentless wars cast their shadows upon the viewer, leaving a deep and lasting imprint on the psyche.