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Sina Al-Bayati

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b-theory

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b-theory, 2025-ongoing

‘B-Theory‘ is a quiet exploration of human transience and the question of how our presence in the universe might persist beyond death.
What happens after death? What explanations are offered by physics, and how do we as humans reflect on our own relationship to death? Is there a way to deconstruct human mortality?

Death was never a distant, abstract concept for me - rather, it was an ever-present topic from early on and deeply inscribed in my mind. The experience of finitude was always tangible, accompanied by the notion that everything dear and important to us will one day disappear. It is a silent presence that operates between generations - unspoken, yet always there, interrupted by the quiet thought that perhaps nothing is truly lost - not as consolation, but as a physical possibility.

These fundamental themes are explored in the ongoing project using the B-Theoryof time. According to this theory, all events - past, present and future- exist simultaneously and are embedded in the fabric of space-time. Death is not understood as an endpoint, but as part of an infinite, timeless whole.

The formal composition draws on multidimensionality in a physical sense on a mode of thinking in space-time structures that subverts linear conceptions of life and death, and begins where space-time and existential experience intersect - beyond linear notions of existence and mortality.

‘B-Theory‘ deals with the idea that time does not flow linearly, but is fixed a
a block. Human existence is depicted as part of an incessant flow of events, which in its unchanging nature implies a subtle form of immortality. The fragments of life, captured in images, point to what remains even though everything passes. ‘B-Theory‘ is an attempt not to dissolve mortality, but look at it anew - between loss and continuity, between what was and what may never fully fade away.