The nine volumes of Wadi Saleib is a photographic exhibition of a neighborhood deserted by its residents through forced deportation, yet it still retains the memories of its occupants- it is occupied by ghosts of memories.

The ruins seem like witnesses to human and intimate occurrences. "I have seen, retraced, and perpetuated the past in the present. I brought light into dark spaces so that they were put into focus and turned into center stage," explains the artist. She adds: "My memories expose the possibilities to memorize others. I see in front of me the fantasized memories of the dwellers of the place, memories that contain those objects which I photograph." The volumes developed with the birth of a story out of a typing machine abandoned in an evacuated house. "The ending of the stories", concludes Ms. Shibli, "is marked by a symbolicdeath that is born from an actual death."