Dima Srouji Palestinian, b. 1990

Overview
View works. Dima Srouji, Maintaining the Sacred, 2023
Maintaining the Sacred, 2023
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Dima Srouji (b. 1990, Palestine) is an architect, artist and researcher whose practice explores the ground, objects, displacement, restitution and living archives. Working across installation, architecture, film, text and glass, she examines cultural heritage, public space and questions of identity through the material and historical layers of place, often with a focus on Palestine and the Middle East. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and currently leads the MA City Design studios at the Royal College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited at the Sharjah Biennial, Islamic Arts Biennial, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Corning Museum of Glass, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Palestinian Museum, and is held in collections including the Corning Museum of Glass, Stedelijk Museum and Art Jameel Collection in Jeddah. Srouji was the 2022-2023 Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum and is currently leading the MA City Design studios at the Royal College of Art in London. 
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Works
  • Dima Srouji , Hollow Forms , 2019
    Hollow Forms , 2019
  • Dima Srouji , This is Not Your Grave, 2024
    This is Not Your Grave, 2024
  • Dima Srouji, Maintaining the Sacred, 2023
    Maintaining the Sacred, 2023
  • Dima Srouji , Revolutionary Enclosures: A Crack in the Water Followed by Return, 2023
    Revolutionary Enclosures: A Crack in the Water Followed by Return, 2023
  • Dima Srouji , Maternal Exhumations, 2022
    Maternal Exhumations, 2022
  • Dima Srouji , She Still Wears Kohl and Smells Like Roses, 2022
    She Still Wears Kohl and Smells Like Roses, 2022
  • Dima Srouji, The Rule of Superposition, 2018
    The Rule of Superposition, 2018
  • Dima Srouji , Almost Roman, 2020
    Almost Roman, 2020
Biography
Dima Srouji
Dima Srouji (b. 1990, Palestine) is an architect, artist and researcher interested in the ground, objects, displacement, restitution, forgeries and living archives. Her work explores the ground as a deep space of cultural and historical weight, looking for ruptures where imaginary forms of liberation become possible. Working across glass, text, archival materials, maps, plaster casts and film, she treats materials as emotional and evocative objects that help question what cultural heritage and public space mean in the larger context of the Middle East, with a particular focus on Palestine. She graduated from the Yale School of Architecture.
 
Her practice exists within the expanded field of interdisciplinary research and is often developed in collaboration with archaeologists, anthropologists, sound designers and glassblowers. Through installations, architectural projects, product design and writing, she examines identity, globalisation and displacement through historic layers, spatial edges and the spirit of place, using making as both a political commentary and a place-making or unmaking tool.
 
Srouji was the 2022–2023 Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum and currently leads the MA City Design studios at the Royal College of Art, London. She has lived and practiced in London, New Haven at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, Milan at Cino Zucchi Architetti, and Ramallah at the Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation.
 
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Sainsbury Centre, Norwich; Palestinian Museum, Birzeit; Hayy Jameel, Jeddah; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Sharjah Biennial 15; Islamic Arts Biennial, Jeddah; Sharjah Architecture Triennial; Corning Museum of Glass; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; London Design Festival; Art Dubai; Dubai Design Week; the Palestinian Museum; and the Qattan Foundation.
 
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Art Jameel Collection.
 
Dima Srouji is based between Ramallah and London.
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