[Asad Khfouri / Refugee] Documents. It is impossible to live without them. Otherwise you become a clochard. It is self-explanatory; if there are no jobs, there is no money.

"men in trouble" is a series composed of rackets that have been hand-embroidered with portraits of fictional male figures against curious backgrounds. Embroidering over drawings and subsequently attaching these to the rackets, the backstories of these male figures have evolved stitch by stitch. From the lavish and grandiose life of a sculptor, to the risky and deceitful existence of a charlatan, the works express the intense, emotional and distempered moments in a man’s life and his pursuit to frame himself within his personal and cultural environments where he juggles to identify and retain his own profound beliefs.