Mariam Salah

Mariam was born and raised in Gaza, Palestine. She was raised a passionate dedicated daughter, devoted to taking care for her familiy, with her unrelenting passion and pursuit to be an Artist and Designer. Her relentless drive to be visionary to spite the oppressive regime and conditions in her community and native homeland is as innate as the air she breathes. She will never give up her passion to pursue and exemplify her visions regardless of the oppression seeking to silence her and all she loves.

Artist's Statement

I am working on completing a project that I have previously carried out with studies and research on stories about women in Arab society. It is a carving pro- ject that technically treats the shape of women after they have gone through harsh conditions and takes responsibility for long periods of time, where I have been monitoring some women who are in special women’s groups for psycho- logical treatment and observing their actions and the shape of their bodies in order to find out what the story of each woman .

I am currently carrying out and developing a multi-technic conceptual project on the smuggling of the sperm from Israeli occupation prisons, which I have introduced through the Hologram technique, which is a means of approach- ing the smuggling process that makes the operation happen without physical contact, as well as conceptual sketches of the methods and tools used in the smuggling operation, which may be absurd for some, such as candy wrappers, chips, lighters, etc...

I have also carried out several projects on child abuse, which are repeated in every year of aggression in the Gaza Strip, entitled “Red Ash,” an artwork with video technology that has contributed to addressing the subject by using several filters that deal with the psychological transition of children during the aggression in a simple period. I have also done a live performance that speaks of political parties in my country and its impact on citizens between normality and stagnation, and forced changes by means of modern dance under the title “ Parties and color.

I’ve cut a formula under the title “We’re not numbers” that’s been dealing with the subject of elections that have not been held since 2007 because of divisions in the Gaza Strip.I carried out an expressive drawing project, treating the use of colors and layers of them at different heights, thickness and colors to express the “90s” project, in which a large group of individual youth figures, whose ages are between 1990 and 1999, in which they appear to have been randomly integrated as an expression of the disappearance of the future and the identity of this period, which did not have a share in career appointments, marriage or other devel- opment in both aspects of life.