Nightfall

Performance&Film

Performer\Creative Direction: Liwen Lian
Styling\Costume Design: Wilson Jedd Adams
Sound Design: Adam Nash
Photography: Wang Jiaxi
Videography/Assistance: Benkosi Dube

Live Performance at Melbourne Design Week X MISCELLANIA, 2025

What futures emerge when we dare to dream together?

In Nightfall, my alter ego Salima Iman Khair al-Din traverses the liminal space between worlds—human and machine, seen and unseen, the tangible and the dreamed. Drawing from Islamic mysticism, Christian allegory, and Chinese cosmology, this work questions the boundaries of reality in an age where digital illusions blur truth.

Through collaborative fashion with Wilson Jedd Adams, sound design with Adam Nash, Salima becomes a conduit between worlds—her cyborg-esque presence symbolising the entanglement of human aspiration and machine logic.

The night, a time of dreaming, dissolves the hierarchies of "real" and "unreal." Are we the architects of machines, or have they always shaped us? In a time of algorithmic polarisation, Nightfall reimagines coexistence—not as dominance, but as fluid dialogue across cultures, technologies, and spiritual dimensions.

Film showed at Next Wave, Brunswick Mechanics Institute