Statement
 

Sally Samaan (*1988, Syria) is an multidisciplinary artist with a master's degree in Media, Art, Design,
and Technology (2021). She is currently based in Groningen, the Netherlands. Since her project Inside the Curtain (2018), presented at the Stedelijk Museum in the frame of the residency Give Us the
Museum, she has been formulating a new vocabulary that makes extensive use of different technologies,
presented within interactive installations where new media are combined with analogical elements, such as sculptures. Her work explores the blending and merging of the physical and digital realms, and how it births new realities and unforeseen perceptions of ourselves and the world around us. Lately, her research is focused on the fragmentations and distortions that emerge in processes of identity formation and communication. She develops situations where human connections and human-machine
interactions create hybrid and experimental commentaries on the state and psychology of the digital age.
Between 2021-2022, Samaan worked on Transmission (a collaboration with Lebanese artist Hussein Faqih), showed in dr8888 museum, Drachten. This work was a broadcasting-based interactive installation where visitors could take part by using QR codes. The project reflected on collective expression and freedom of expression. Her last project, Reflecting, was produced in 2022 during Samaan's residency at iMAL, Brussels, in the framework of the Halaqat project, an European programme implemented by the Goethe Institute in collaboration with Bozar – centre for Fine Arts Brussels, and co-funded by the European commission.