Tongues at Play / 2022 (installation )
 Languages act, they perform and inhabit. They also oppress, witness, haunt, and play. Tongues at play is a work that speaks to our multilingualism and the complexity of roles and performativities that different languages play in our lives. At times an oppressor, at others witness, haunter, or impolite, these roles often shift and transform, occupying different objects, spaces, and relevances. In a series of letters addressed to the languages that have so far been part of her journey, Siwar creates a space that attempts to resolve and understand the relationships she has with each, activating memories, reflecting on proximities, and forming new insights and connections spatially. Participants are invited to engage with the letters in a playground-like space where each letter is translated into scale, space, and sound fed by the roles they currently embody in a scene that denotes the transformational capacity of those roles and that present a self-reflective journey as a case study of one’s relationships with languages.