Daniah Alsaleh’s work reflects on memory and cultural conditioning: how messages and beliefs are absorbed and delivered via media and other networks. She questions behavioural patterns and paradigms in the everyday, examining things that we take for face value, by destabilising the mainstream assumptions that form the basis of this conditioning. Her work deconstructs accepted meanings and suggest alternative positions. She looks at the ordinary, the mundane, the ubiquitous of things by looking into cultural tropes, memory, connectedness and division. Through different materials and computation, Alsaleh uses analogies to establish ways of reading and unearth unexpected perspectives. The work is duplicitous: behind its aesthetics lies a commentary on human fragility, insecurity, and vulnerability
EDUCATION
2020 –MFA ( With Distinction) in Computational Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
1993 Undergraduate degree in Computer Applications, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
AWARDS
2019 Ithra Art Prize, Ithra, Saudi Arabia
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2023 Alliance Française d'Arabie Saoudite & Ambassade de France en Arabie Saoudite, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2023 Goethe-Institut Saudi-Arabia, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2022 AlUla Artist Residency, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
2022 Berlin Art Institute Residency, Berlin, Germany
2020 Residency at AreByte Gallery June/July, London, UK
2019 Hayy Learning, Navigating the Contemporary Art Scene, Art Jameel, Jeddah
2014-2017 Short Courses (Textile Sculpture, Oil Painting), The Art Academy, London, UK
2010-2017 Selected Short courses The Princes School of Traditional Arts, London, UK
2012 Short Course Slade School of Art, London, UK
2007-2008 Selected Courses, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2002-2012 Selected Courses, Atelier of Dar Safiya bn Zagr, Jeddah, KSA