Samah Hijawi

Samah Hijawi is an artist and researcher currently doing her PhD in Art Practice at ULB and the Academie Royale Des Beaux Art de Bruxelles, Belgium. In 2020 she started a long-term project “Kitchen. Table.” that researches the movement of food practices over time and across geographies, and the body as a site of food memory.

Her earlier work focused on unpacking the political gesture in artistic works that allude to the histories of Palestine, a research that manifested in a series of collages and lecture performances from 2017-2019. The essence of the question of where the political is embedded in artistic work, continues in the on-going series “Aesthetics of the Politica”l, a project that involves creating artist to artist encounters to explore how political ideas are transformed to artistic form.