Carolina Rito of Mousse Magazine said that Alien Encounters and The Ten Murders of Josephine were focused on "mechanisms of the law and how these mechanisms inform and institutionalize the legal subject".[1] Rito commented that with the "tensions between sound/silence, voice/speech, and legality/illegality" in Hamadeh's work "both polarities inform one another, or, better said, imply and implicate one another".[4]