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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 liminality, identity, and collective trauma. Her works were displayed in two solo exhibitions and multiple group ones around Budapest and Berlin. In addition, she was featured on the first issue of Fusayfsa' Journal and Low Tides Zine. In recent years, Sarah started using her experience in Art and Psychology to explore the connections between the two fields through facilitating communal workshops in her art circle, Inner Brush, in Budapest where she is currently based and experimenting with alternative ways to showcase and engage with her art. 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 the 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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