Watch: At the table Mounira Al Sohl

The At The Table series brings together the voices of the seven AM10 artists alongside those of international curators, artists, historians, thinkers and writers in a series of roundtable discussions. The talks centre on themes and ideas present in the artist’s work and the interwoven relationship between histories and practices, locally to internationally.

Mounira Al Solh (b. 1978, Lebanon, lives and works between Beirut and Amsterdam) is a visual artist embracing inter alia video and installations, painting and drawing, text, embroidery, and performative gestures. Irony and self-reflectivity are central strategies for her work, which explores feminist issues, tracks patterns of micro-history, bears witness to the impact of conflict and displacement, is socially engaged, and can be political and poetically escapist all at once. Her practice utilizes oral documentation, multidisciplinary collaboration and wordplay to explore themes of memory and loss. Motivated by acts of sharing and storytelling, change and resistance, Al Solh strives to craft a sensory language that defies nationality and creed.

Amak Mahmoodian (b.1980, Shiraz, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran in 2003. Since 2010, she has been living in the UK, unable to return to Iran. She practices as a visual artist at the intersection of conceptual image-making and documentary photography, working with photographs, text, video, drawing, archives and sound. Her practice explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, bridging a space between personal and political across platforms and formats including installation, books and films.

Rachel Dedman is the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the V&A. Since 2019, Rachel has been the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Recent projects for the V&A include displays for London Design Festival 2025, the exhibition Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine at V&A Dundee, the display Tatreez: Palestinian Embroidery, and exhibitions Jameel Prize: Moving Images and Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics at V&A South Kensington. Rachel is the curator of the Jameel Fellowship programme at the V&A, a research residency for artists and designers from the Middle East, and edited the V&A commissioning platform Beirut Mapped.

Sarah Mady has a Ph.D. in archaeology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an adjunct lecturer at Montclair State University, NJ, and Fordham University, NY. Her research is focused on healing shrines in North Lebanon that specialize in fertility, lactation, and infant health. Such spaces have been active since Late Antiquity and used by women and mothers of different faiths. She is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the intersection of women’s magic and religion, who engages with anthropological and archaeological methods to study the ways in which women have healed each other and their infants in the longue durée of the Eastern Mediterranean. By focusing on socially constructed spaces such as cave shrines, she traces back women’s presence in public spaces and studies their landscape of healing, grief, and memory.