Salama Nasib is an accomplished instructor of Visual Arts at Zayed University, UAE. She acquired an MA in Print from the prestigious Royal College of Art in London, UK. Before joining Zayed University, Nasib worked as a Studio/ Membership Coordinator at Tashkeel in Dubai, where she remained up-to-date with the latest art trends. While there, she managed seven studios, organized artistic and collaborative workshops, and co-curated upcoming exhibitions. Nasib has exhibited her work at both local and international venues, including Meem Gallery and Emirates Palace, as well as The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, and the Berlin Art Week 2017 in Berlin.
She was also part of the inaugural batch of the Salama Emerging Artist fellowship, provided by the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and in collaboration with Rhode Island School of Design. Nasib was the guest artist of Past Forward: Exhibitions from the UAE, hosted in East Lansing (Michigan) in the USA, as the fifth destination of the touring exhibition. Recently, she embarked on a six-week residency at Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland, in collaboration with Tashkeel and the British Council. Salama Nasib has collaborated with major organizations such as Louvre Abu Dhabi, while continuing to pursue her goal of establishing a diverse print community in the UAE by introducing print to her clients and teaching.
Salama Nasib’s art is best described as intimate, meditative, and interactive. She is intimate with her subject matter, meditative with her print application, and interactive with her audience. Her art centers around the subject of memory and all the ideas associated with it, including remembering, forgetting, and false memories. Her personal struggle to hold onto certain precious memories has heavily influenced her recent practice, leading her to find printmaking as the best outlet to depict this struggle and meditate.
Nasib’s recent research involves using old family photo albums as a reference to the past and transitioning to the realistic present and desired future through the multiple layering and applications of various print techniques, including photo-lithography, solar printing, and blind embossing. Her recent experiments also involve recording and composing her own voice as an added layer to the prints, giving the illusion of spoken prints, or better described as spoken memories. By incorporating sound alongside her prints, Nasib successfully engages her audience with her work, immersing them in intimate dialogues for unforgettable experiences.