Art, Space, and Place: Public Lecture by artist Nardeen Srouji

Art, Space and Place reflects on the artist’s practice as it navigates between opposing perspectives and conflicted art scenes. Drawing on her layered experience as a Palestinian artist living in Israel - born into a Christian family from Nazareth within a predominantly Muslim cultural environment - the talk explores how complexity translates into artistic form.

Through site-specific interventions, sculpture, video, and installation, her work examines the intersections of space, time, and place, engaging questions of stability and instability, placement and displacement, familiarity and estrangement. These tensions are not treated as abstract concepts but as lived realities that shape both artistic production and perception.

Using examples from her own practice, the artist discusses how art can reveal hidden layers of place, challenge dominant narratives of reality, history, and identity, and create spaces for reflection and critical engagement. The talk highlights the contradictions and possibilities that emerge from navigating multiple cultural, social, and political contexts, offering insight into how contemporary art can open new ways of seeing, understanding, and being in the world.