About

Zina Karaman (b. 2001, London, UK) is a Palestinian-Lebanese-Dutch multidisciplinary artist and poet working across installation, video, sound, projection, and text. Her practice examines narratives, hidden truths, political structures, and the ways storytelling shapes collective memory. Engaging with subjects that have been obscured, denied, or systematically silenced, she creates spaces that confront erasure.

Through poetry, moving image, archival material, and immersive installations, Karaman employs layered storytelling to reflect the fragmentation of memory, the instability of place, and the ways history is constructed and contested. Her process involves research, collecting and repurposing materials, and incorporating both personal and collective histories. Materiality plays a central role in her work—translucent fabrics evoke absence and presence, soundscapes and voice recordings immerse audiences in layered temporalities, and installations disrupt passive spectatorship, creating spaces of confrontation, remembrance, and witnessing.

Her work is deeply informed by histories of forced migration, state violence, and cultural erasure, particularly within the context of Palestine. Beyond the arts, her perspective is shaped by political discourse, grassroots activism, and lived experience.

Poetry remains integral to her practice, woven into visual works and performances as both text and voice. Her words—deliberate, stripped of embellishment, and direct—interact with space, sound, and image, shaping the rhythm and atmosphere of the experience. Whether spoken, inscribed, or fragmented, poetry functions as both testimony and disruption.

Through a multidisciplinary approach, Karaman creates work that challenges false narratives and documents ongoing struggles. Her practice, at this moment, is an act of witnessing, a refusal to forget, and a call to reimagine justice with clarity and conviction. It is a practice in flux, shifting with each day as new layers of memory, accounts, and resistance emerge.