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Biography
Sarah Diefallah, an Egyptian interdisciplinary artist, was born in Giza in 1997. Following the Arab Spring, she moved with her family to Doha, Qatar. She started exploring visual arts to express her experience as a young migrant; ever Since, Sarah’s creative practice has focused on themes of liminality, identity, and collective trauma. Her works were displayed in two solo exhibitions and multiple group ones in Budapest, BioBAT Art Space NY, and at Oyoun Berlin in collaboration with MENA Art Gallery. In addition, she was featured in the first issue of Fusayfsa' Journal, Low Tides Zine, and Arts to Hearts Magazine. Currently, Sarah uses her background in art and psychology to explore the intersections of the two fields through facilitating workshops in her art circle, Inner Brush, in Budapest, where she is based. From guided meditations to expressive painting and nonconventional live drawing sessions, she continuously explores ways to showcase and engage with art and community work. Artist Statement My main subject matter and greatest inspiration is humans, in all their fragility, variability, and resilience. Through ink and mixed media paintings, sculptures, and installations, I capture the liminal state from the body to the cityscape. While moving to Doha prompted my creative work, Cairo has remained my main source of inspiration. I constantly reference photographs and sketches collected from visits to Egypt to explore concepts of identity, surveillance, and trauma. My work is intimately inspired by personal experiences e.g. memories, family history, and dreams. Nevertheless, I express the raw emotions I experience through those moments rather than depicting the associated events. Ink’s organic ability to flow powerfully captures the vulnerability that comes with such experiences and makes it an essential element in most of my paintings. Other mediums and materials I use such as fabric, clay, video, and others are intuitively guided by the concepts expressed depending on each project. Through my practice, I create experiences that reflect the instability of our lives where humans find themselves constantly displaced and I dedicate my art to those who experience feelings of alienation, instability, and uncertainty to find collective comfort in the midst of continuous liminality. |
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