In most of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s installations, the aesthetics of sound take a front-row seat—sound is the “dirty evidence” used to reconstruct the experience of living in a pitch-black prison in Syria or to catalogue objects whose sounds became issues in legal disputes. Abu Hamdan has worked with Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has leveraged the collective’s strategies for excavating the hidden truth in visual flotsam in his own search for evidence in remnants of the spoken word. With 45th Parallel, 2022, a film commissioned by several institutions, including