Floating Homes

opened June 2024

Floating Homes explores the intricate relationship between those who have experienced displacement and the homes they left behind. A look into personal archaeologies of home in migration. A Contemporary art exhibit and research by Sammy Zarka.

On display till October 7th 2024
at Musée villa gallo-romaine de Loupian

Human Brains - It Begins With An Idea

opened April 2022

Human Brains: exhibition design by Sammy Zarka in collaboration with Curator Udo Kittelmann and Artist Taryn Simon

Produced by Fondazione Prada Venezia

EXPO 2020

opened October 2021

Designing and building Italy’s pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020 collaborating with Italo Rota and Carlo Ratti.

Reggio Emilia City Museum

opened April 2021

Reinventing Reggio Emilia’s museum in its architectural and permanent exhibit in a collaboration with Italo Rota.

WHO THE BÆR

opened May 2021

Exhibit design of Simon Fujiwara’s exhibition at. Fondazione Prada Milano.

The Fading image of Syria in a Syrian mind

published September 2016

The trauma of war keeps the memory of the war alive even when physically detached. Turin/Aleppo

Swish Stool

released in 2017

MioCuggino’s Back to stool competition awarded Swish stool the first place before it got produced by Cassina in 2017.

Project designed in a collaboration with Carlo Ratti Associati.

UNTOLD STORIES/ FORGOTTEN MAPS

Published in 2019

“Their Lost Homes” is a drawing from memory survey that discovers homes their people have left behind during the conflict in Syria. The lines of the drawings uncover a transforming identity of the subject of displacement, as in most cases drawings do not display how home was but how its loss is experienced through layers of trauma and nostalgia. Each lost home is paired by a place the same individual currently occupies revealing how one reconstructs home in exile and continues to see new places through the eyes of home(?) The objective of the survey is to emphasize the importance of taking people’s transforming identity and their complex post-traumatic perception of space into consideration when planning a post war Syria. This submission reflects on collective memory, discovering how individual stories share a fragmented unique image of Syria’s past and complex reality.