Deeply impacted by her uncle’s passing, and gifted with a single visit by him in her dreams, Abdu amasses a solid structure, or wall of soap-bars made from ingredients traditionally used to wash the body, and imprints a plea on the surface: Now That I’ve Lost You in My Dreams, Where Do We Meet? The structure weighs down the fleeting moment of farewell, solidifying the dissipating quality of odor and smell into tangible blocks that can be infinitely cast.

Islamic funeral rituals of perfuming the body as means of purification and send-off impacted Abdu’s relationship with smell. Whether in the context of religious salvation or physical hygiene, masking or washing away bodily odors deduced for the artist an intrinsic relationship and proximity with death.

The ritual of washing away the corporeal remnants of the body in the final moments of farewell pushed the artist to seek out spaces of encounter beyond the physical and somatic world, gesturing to bridge between both realms in the dreamscapes.