A series of videos in which Khaled proposes to present the viewers, with a record of the wedding ceremony from the angle of an outsider. Existing in multifarious forms, the wedding ceremony is a socio-cultural construct that has achieved the status of the sacred, with a set of customs and traditions that have developed with the passage of time in almost every culture. In this project, my subject of choice is the ‘white wedding’, the model for the traditional Western wedding in modern times. Trying to implicates viewers by sharing this stolen fragment in which he duplicates a singular event twice: first by recording the ceremony and later by mirror imaging the document he records. Khaled intervenes further by superimposing an additional layer to the work - a persistent birdsong that resounds against the silence of the woods, simulating nature and confirming the classical atmosphere of the event.
The bride, groom and their guests are in full costume, like performers on a stage. And always the locations of the scenes are very public western classical venus, palaces or parks used usually by upper middle class in this cities.
The project points to the notion that society continues to celebrate orthodox relationships that conform to its norms and values, when in reality, these very rules have been constituted by society itself. The intervention suggests the naturalization of the union between male and female vis-à-vis ‘other’ types of relationships that are less socially acceptable, a general strategy Khaled hopes in employ in the whole series.
