My name is Sara Sallam.
I’m a multidisciplinary artist-researcher.
I grew up in Cairo and now live in Delft.
I work with still and moving images,  
and self-publish handmade books.

Currently on View


  • Between Us, Only Rupture, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (14 Nov 2025 - Permanent)
  • Suturing Wounds, Photo Oxford, at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (25 Oct - 25 Jan 2026)
  • Egypt: Influencing British Design 1775-2025, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (7 Oct 2025 - 18 Jan 2026)
  • Op = Op, Moezeum, Rotterdam (3 Oct - 19 Dec 2025)
  • Bound Narratives, B7L9 Art Centre, Tunis (19 Sep - 1 Nov 2025)
  • You know My Name, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (Mar 25 - Mar 2026)
  • The Sun Weeps for the Land and Calls from the Garden of Stones, Museo Egizio, Turin (Nov 24 - Permanent)
  • I Prayed for the Resin Not to Melt, the Art and History Museum, Brussels (Mar 23 - Permanent)
  • Selected Works



    Suturing Wounds

    2024 - Ongoing

    Evil Eye Labyrinths

    2024 - Ongoing

    Home Outside of Home

    2017 - Ongoing

    Desert Studio
    2013 / 2020