Dhiaa Biya

Dhiaa Biya is a Moroccan filmmaker and photographer based in Brussels. Her work often draws on recurring motifs in language and gesture. Dhiaa explores the rhythms of everyday actions and the intricacies of memory, focusing on visual composition, poetic resonance, and close observation of her surroundings.

what else grows on the palm of your hand?

Dhiaa Biya, Morocco, Belgium, 2023, 16’

The routines of two women fuse together over time. One is busy with her bread, the other with her memories. Their similar gestures, repeated again and again, slowly unfold the special bond that unites them.

what else grows on the palm of your hand? (Dhiaa Biya, 2023)

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Whispering Hands

Dhiaa Biya’s what else grows on the palm of your hand? (2023)

Bo Alfaro Decreton

01.05.2026

In a series of intimate, domestic scenes that interweave the present with the past, Dhiaa Biya honours the weathered hands of a (deceased) grandmother. Through repetition of the same gestures, the hands of three generations of women merge, free from any obstacles posed by the passage of time. Is there a more beautiful part of the body than the hands to reflect on in order to rekindle the extinguished connection between head and body, a characteristic of these frenzied times?

Dhiaa Biya

what else grows on the palm of your hand?

Whispering Hands

double bill #31

curated by Myriam Mouflih