Form/Gesture. Kevin Francis Gray and Paul Jenkins at Caudwell, London
8th October 20249th October 2024
Dima Srouji (b. 1990, Palestine) is an architect, academic, and artist based in London. She was the 2022-2023 Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum and teaches as Studio Lead in the MA City Design at the Royal College of Art, London. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from Yale School of Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from Kingston School of Art.
Srouji’s practice is focused on the environment, ground, objects, displacement, restitution, forgeries, and living archives, searching for potential ruptures in the ground where imaginary liberation can occur. Her politically charged works employ various mediums like glass, text, maps, plaster casts, sound and film, viewing each as an evocative object and emotional companion that allows her to question the meaning of cultural heritage and public space in the broader context of her home region, with a particular lens on Palestine. Her projects are developed closely with archaeologists, anthropologists, sound designers, metal workers, and glassblowers.
In 2016, she founded Hollow Forms, a glass-blowing design project in Jaba’, Palestine, in partnership with the Twam family.
Selected Exhibitions
Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Ford Foundation, New York; Islamic Art Biennial, Jeddah; Sharjah Art Biennial, UAE; Sharjah Architecture Triennial, UAE; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Tai Kwun Museum, Hong Kong; Palestinian Museum, Birzeit; Design Doha, Qatar; CAC Contemporary Arts Center, New York; Artvisor, London.
Selected Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Corning Museum of Glass, USA.
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