SWANA Chronicles

Category: Multimedia
  • Donia Alshetairy

    Donia Alshetairy, born in Yafaa, Yemen, 1983. She is an artist based in Saudi Arabia, studied IT and is self-taught in graphic design and multimedia. Her passion for art inspired her to Pursue a degree in art. Al Shetairy’s artistic approach focuses on the concept of restoring one’s roots, a principle influenced by her studies…

  • Malak Elghuel

    Malak Elghuel is a Libyan artist based between Dubai and London, whose multidisciplinary practice centers around the examination of social changes in the Mena region, particularly her home country. Using time as a measure of change, an invisible vessel for documentation, and a medium, Malak’s research-intensive process explores culture and human behavior during periods of…

  • Khadidja Markemal

    Khadidja Markemal, a photographer and artisan, has been immersed in the world of visual arts since 2015. Her lens captures life’s moments, both ordinary and extraordinary: her daily routine, captivating journeys, and the faces of those she encounters. These experiences often blossom into photographic series, sometimes morphing into hybrid forms that interweave sound and video.…

  • Katya A.Traboulsi

    Born in 1960, Katya A.Traboulsi is a Beirut based multimedia artist whose practice is characterized by the emotional intensity with which she confronts the effects of the Lebanese civil war. Both her painting  and sculptural works are characterized by her bold use of color, which disrupts the viewer’s expectations of the dark subject matter they…

  • Esraa Elfeky

    Esraa Elfeky (born. 1989) is an Egyptian multimedia artist working with video, sculpture, drawing, sound, and installation. Her work unearths the complex relationships that exist between the natural world, the body, time, and the urban environment. For the past five years, Elfeky has navigated themes such as the apocalypse, decay, and resurrection as an ongoing…

  • Aya Haidar

    Aya Haidar (b. 1985, lives and works in London) is a multimedia artist; her work focuses on the use of found and recycled objects exploring loss, migration, memory, labour, domesticity and womanhood.  Her hand-embroidered interventions onto culturally and historically specific objects, unfold silenced and authentic narratives around socially and politically engaged issues.   Aya Haidar graduated…

  • Hend Al-Mansour

    Hend Al-Mansour, a multimedia visual artist, gets her inspiration from childhood memories of the strong women who raised her in Hofuf in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia. Folk tales and stories about historical Arab heroines unleash her creativity and nourish her vision. However, her journey into the art world began on a different path.…

  • Sulafa Hijazi

    Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1977, Sulafa Hijazi is a Berlin-based director and interdisciplinary artist. She studied at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria, majoring in dramatic studies, and at the Städelschule Contemporary Fine Art Academy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.​ With a background in theater, animation, conceptual art, and films, she has…

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