Duaa Abu Sada is a Shami (Levantine) artist from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, working mainly between the Golan and Palestine. Her practice explores the relationship between the body, the self, and place, and the ways in which power, borders, and occupation reshape this relationship.
Her work draws from personal and collective memory, oral histories, architecture, domestic elements, and local folklore. Through research, archives, image-making, installation, and material experimentation, she creates works where personal experience intersects with the political histories of place.
For Abu Sada, place is not a neutral backdrop, but something that inhabits the body and leaves its traces within it. The body, in turn, becomes a site where borders, fear, belonging, and displacement are experienced. Through her practice, she questions what comes to appear natural or familiar, reconsidering our relationship to ourselves, to the land, and to the systems that shape our lives.
Artist Talk — A. M. Qattan Foundation, 2024
In Arabic — English subtitles available via YouTube captions.
In Arabic — English subtitles available via YouTube captions.
From an Earlier Phase of My Practice
Artist Video, 2021
Artist Poster, 2019
Artist Poster, 2019
