Omer Wasim’s intermedial practice queers space to subvert the frames of development, infrastructure, and everyday wars that shape human relationships within cities and with nature. His work bears witness to the relentless erasure, violence, and destruction of our present moment by engaging with disappeared and emerging ecologies, the spectres of postmemory, and the minutiae of daily life. Weaving in and out of the personal, as caught in the crosshairs of political and social upheavals, he gathers and transforms ephemeral, sonic, and more-than-human traces into episodic and iterative installations that resist state amnesia, historical erasure, and un-belonging in territories across South Asia.
In his recent projects, Wasim interrogates the materiality of the urban and the vernacular to create immersive environments punctuated by everyday objects and gestures of resistance. Referencing architectural thresholds and the porosity of domestic spaces, these works serve as theatrical settings for imagining impossible narratives of queer survival, the passage of generational knowledge, and ecological entanglements amid the ruins of nation-states.