Sara Sallam

Born 1991 in EgyptSara Sallam (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Egypt and now lives in the Netherlands. She is currently a Jameel Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Her research-based practice includes photography, moving images, writing, voice narration, archival interventions, and book-making. Through her work, she focuses on retelling contested histories by imagining counter-narratives and exploring empathy, fiction, and temporal juxtapositions as ways to reclaim and decolonise her Egyptian heritage.

She holds an MA in Film and Photographic Studies from Leiden University, an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts London, and a BA in Media Design from the German University in Cairo. Her work has been exhibited recently at the Art and History Museum in Brussels (2023), the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023), the Laing Art Gallery, New Castle (2023), the Tahrir Cultural Centre, Cairo (2023), Sumac Space, Berlin (2023), Museo Egizio, Turin (2022), Magnum Foundation, New York (2022), the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich (2022), and Museo Novecento, Florence (2022). She has also participated in Art Cairo (2023), Vantage Point Sharjah 9 (2021), Intersect 21 (2021), and Photo London (2020). Her work has been collected by individuals as well as institutions, including Museo Egizio, the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, the Art and History Museum in Brussels, the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, and the Middlebury College Museum of Art.