Sara Sallam

The Fourth Pyramid Belongs To Her

Home Outside of Home

Sara Sallam (Egyptian b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and visual researcher based in the Netherlands. She works across media and platforms, using photography, video, creative writing, and archival material, and making books and short films. Themes of absence, loss, and longing run throughout her work in which she explores ways of visualising things we cannot see and people we cannot meet. Against this backdrop, she reflects on growing up in Egypt, questioning the colonially-shaped attitudes reflected in tourism, archaeology, and museum practices, and criticising how they prevent Egyptians from relating to their past and ancestors. At the centre of Sara’s artistic practice is drawing analogies between seemingly unrelated worlds, by re-appropriating and manipulating photographs and archival material, inviting, in turn, hidden and overlooked meanings to emerge.

Sara has exhibited internationally and was awarded grants from Magnum Foundation and Mophradat. Her work was shortlisted in Lange-Taylor Prize, Kassel Photobook Award, The Friends of the Arab World Institute Award, Joop Swart Masterclass, and Magnum Foundation Fund. In 2020, Sara began self-publishing her work in the form of hand-bound photobooks.

Website: sarasallam.com

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