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Jumana Emil Abboud
Jumana Emil Abboud draws on folklore, myths and storytelling to celebrate heritage and identify interconnectedness between different peoples through drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Central to her practice is an expanding body of works rooted in collaborative Water Divining workshops, which address ways in which local stories speak of place and survive changes in land use, occupation and dispossession centred on water sources.
Palestinian-Canadian artist Jumana Emil Abboud (b. 1971) is currently based between Jerusalem and London where she is completing her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art. Working in spoken-word performance, video, walking, journaling, drawing, and collaborative Water Divining workshops, Abboud’s practice addresses ways in which stories can survive past dispossession. Her work has been presented at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Cample Line, Tavros Athens, Documenta, Jameel Arts Centre, Seoul Museum of Art – SeMA, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, the Khaled Shoman Foundation Darat al Funun, at Biennales in Lyon, Sharjah, Venice, Istanbul, and Sydney, at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Bildmuseum among others.
Jumana Emil Abboud. Photography Credit: Ai Iwane
Biography
Jumana Emil Abboud draws on folklore, myths and storytelling to celebrate heritage and identify interconnectedness between different peoples through drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Central to her practice is an expanding body of works rooted in collaborative Water Divining workshops, which address ways in which local stories speak of place and survive changes in land use, occupation and dispossession centred on water sources.
Palestinian-Canadian artist Jumana Emil Abboud (b. 1971) is currently based between Jerusalem and London where she is completing her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art. Working in spoken-word performance, video, walking, journaling, drawing, and collaborative Water Divining workshops, Abboud’s practice addresses ways in which stories can survive past dispossession. Her work has been presented at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Cample Line, Tavros Athens, Documenta, Jameel Arts Centre, Seoul Museum of Art – SeMA, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, the Khaled Shoman Foundation Darat al Funun, at Biennales in Lyon, Sharjah, Venice, Istanbul, and Sydney, at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Bildmuseum among others.
