Muhassad Al-Ani is based in Vienna, where he just finished is diploma in Applied Photography & Time Based Media at the University of Applied Arts, which got nominated for Paris Photo Carte Blanche 2023 as one of the finalist projects.
His practice focuses on photographic staging, observation and investigation of archive material. His work draws from personal experiences of exile and displacement as it investigates the struggle for cultural identity and belonging. He tries to find structure and patterns in the results of postcolonial circumstances and transgenerational trauma around him and his family.
