Sara Sallam

Sara Sallam is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Delft, the Netherlands.

Themes of absence, loss, and longing run throughout her multilayered projects, in which she explores ways of portraying things we cannot see and people we cannot meet.

“You held my severed skull in your blue gloved hands and closely observed it from all angles. You mounted it on a wooden plank and began taking my photographic portraits. I saw you studying my head, analysing my cheekbones and the shape of my nose.” This photograph and excerpt are from my book “At Last, I Hold Your Gaze,” in which I imagine Egyptian mummies holding and returning the archaeological gaze long arrested on them.”

www.sarasallam.com @sarasallam

• Edition of 5

• Printed on Canon Photo Paper Pro Luster

• 20.0 x 29.7 cm with fine white border