Samar Al Summary

Samar Al Summary was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1988). Her work disorients west and east, progress and regress, belatedness and contemporariness. She is an artist and writer who has worked in video, installation, photography, and text. Through her work, she reveals the historical, economic, and material contexts in which the hallucinations of power take place. Her most recent exhibitions include Organ Vida International Photography Festival in zagreb, Croatia (2020), Film Festival Oberhausen at Oberhausen, Germany (2020); Rencontres de la Photographie at Marrakech, Morocco (2019); Voies Off Awards Screening at Arles, France (2019). She was a part of Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Educational Fellowship from 2019 to 2020.