Ayman Zedani's work revolves around the relationships and dynamics between the human and more-than-human worlds in relation to the future of the planet, and more specifically, the future of the Gulf. His multi-layered projects are built on a series of experiments and investigations exploring multi-species collaboration and various forms of knowledge as a foundation to overcome the challenges of the Anthropocene.
In Mēm, the awarded art project of the inaugural Ithra Art Prize in 2018, the artist created a megalithic marker that can be read by a distanced future intelligence challenging the concept of our timescale as a species in relation to that of the planet. It has an embedded simple code that can be deciphered by an imagined future encounter eons from now, and was inspired by the structure of old oil derricks. The project sheds light on the long story arc of the earth and the timescale in which natural processes occur in attempts to establish a sense of kinship with all denizens of this planet from the past, present and future.