SAMIRA MAKHOUL
Direction
For individuals and institutions, this work begins with the same question: what is held at the centre and is it visible in how you present?
You do not need to show everything. A strong core communicates itself. The work of direction is knowing what to reveal, what to withhold, and trusting that the right audience will feel what lies within.
Studies on Faith
Concept
Faith is the relationship between the self and the self.
This study was inspired by Jon Fosse's Septology — and the idea that not understanding something can be as powerful as understanding it. That meaning does not require full visibility. That certainty and uncertainty can coexist within the same form.
The question this work asks is: how do you visualise what is hidden — without showing it?
Approach
Visibility is reduced. The face is veiled, expression is contained. The cross is not displayed — it is held close, as an anchor.
Restraint is the method. Not because there is nothing to show, but because what is held at the core does not need to be performed. When the internal structure is strong, presence organises itself around it.
What appears uncertain on the surface carries structural clarity within.
Outcome
Restraint becomes the loudest thing in the room. When the core is strong, you do not need to be loud to be visible. You do not need to expose to be present. Hiding and showing become equally powerful — because what is withheld is felt as strongly as what is revealed.
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