Eclipse is an ongoing photographic project about memories that refuse to stay clear.
What does it mean to live while seeing the world in your own way?
How do you see it—and can you show it to someone else?
In Eclipse, I try to show what I remember and what I feel, not as complete scenes, but as fragments: blurred, interrupted, half-erased. I work with light and shadow on photographic images to draw the outlines of memories that are not fully visible anymore.
These images sit somewhere between presence and absence—like an eclipse: something is there, but partly hidden, distorted by time, by distance, and sometimes by the need to forget.
Eclipse
”touch to focus”
Eclipse
Prova – A Scene from Memory: Forgetting
This project was developed in 2024 as part of “Prova – A Scene from Memory: Forgetting”, the second phase of Prova, a movement–visual–writing lab with artists in Syria.
Prova works with scenes and images drawn from personal memory: we reconstruct them, analyze and deconstruct them, and then transform them into new artistic scenes that are shared with others. The lab creates a safe space for experimentation, where each artist brings their own tools and perspective.
In the second phase, “A Scene from Memory: Forgetting”, we focused on forgetting—not only as a natural part of being human, where details fade over time, but also as something imposed on us by reality. This kind of systematic forgetting can distort identity and even reach beyond the mind, reshaping the body, the place, and the ideas we live with.
My Role in Prova
Simon Tomeh is a Syrian photographer and filmmaker.
Simon participated as a visual artist in the full second Prova lab, “A Scene from Memory: Forgetting.” During the lab, he developed the first draft of Eclipse, which was shown in a work-in-progress group exhibition.
He also contributed his visual expertise to support the projects of other participants, and played a major role in designing, developing, and realizing a collaborative work titled “Map of Memory.”
Beyond the artistic process, Simon was actively involved in preparing the Prova exhibition: he supported the technical setup, helped organize during the show, and contributed to the visual documentation.