Untitled (2026) is a photograph of two historic Syrian spacesuits left on a Damascus sidewalk after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The Sokol suits belonged to Major General Mohammad Ahmad Fares, the first Syrian in space, who flew a Soviet mission to the Mir station in 1987, and to his backup, Mounir Habib. For decades, the suits had been kept as national artefacts in a museum in Damascus. In the aftermath of the regime’s collapse, they were taken out and set on the street and propped against a wall beside ordinary household furniture.

The picture draws its charge from the distance between what these objects are and where they have ended up. A spacesuit is among a nation's proudest scientific relics, the sign of the moment Syria reached orbit; on the pavement, slumped between a glass table and cardboard boxes, it is a sign of refusal, a monument to national achievement put out with the rubbish in the disorder of a political transition. When the image circulated it opened a wide public argument about the fate of heritage and the progress of the nation-state when a state falls, and Fares's widow, Hind Aqeel, appealed for the suits' safe return and protection.