Malaz Usta

Malaz Usta is a Syrian artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. His practice moves between film, performance, installation, and the written diary, exploring time, exile, and the poetics of waiting. Working with personal archives, home videos, 3D simulations, sound, and text, he constructs fragmented worlds where memory and imagination intertwine. His works reflect on displacement as both a lived condition and a way of seeing and making, seeking to reorient oneself within fractured timelines and unstable geographies. Through acts of collecting, recording, editing, and layering, Malaz uses the quotidian as a space for resistance, transforming daily gestures and observations into reflections on belonging, uncertainty, absurdity, and the fragile architectures of existence.