With more than a decade of engagement in the SWANA region, Walid Al Wawi, a Palestinian artist and cultural practitioner passionate about the dismantlement of political connotation in the contemporary Arab identity as well as the deinstitutionalisation of art research in local and international discourse through alternative methodologies of education, and cultural practices.

Al Wawi works in painting, performance, video and installation. He received critical acclaim for his academic and purest approach to objects and physical documentation that dialogue with the political and cultural identity of the Palestinian body in diaspora, it’s implication on the post colonialist dream of pan Arabism and vice versa, he has been welcomed by leading institutes and spaces such as Darat Al Funun, Jameel Arts Center, The Tate Exchange, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art South Korea, FIAC Art Fair and many more.

His most recent undertaking is the founding of the regionally pioneering grassroots initiative Samt, for Arts and Research, through which he envision a democratisation of art accessibility and pushing the boundaries of the physically confined white space to a more contemporary and digital approach; opening the receptivity of art and discourse from Southwestern Asia and North Africa to an international audience from all regions with no Geo-political restrictions on humans or art.