Liza Madi (Palestine)
Liza Madi is a Palestinian visual artist currently based in Poland. Her artistic practice emerges from personal experience as a source of visual and conceptual knowledge, shaped by living within fragile and transitional spaces—between what has been and what has yet to be completed. Her work engages with liminal spaces, identity, memory, loss, and displacement not as abstract themes, but as embodied experiences formed through the intersection of body, place, and time.
Madi approaches art as an ongoing process of research and experimentation rather than a fixed or final product. She primarily works with acrylic on canvas, alongside installation-based practices. Her practice extends across painting, installation, spatial interventions, video, and text, with the choice of medium responding directly to the nature of each experience and what it demands in terms of material presence or absence, weight or fragility.
Memory plays a central role in her work, particularly memory connected to place—such as the home, the window, borders, and the details of everyday life. Personal archives and ordinary remnants are transformed into visual elements open to reconfiguration. Rather than direct documentation, Madi creates contemplative spaces that evoke rupture, waiting, and ambiguity.
Her practice is deeply influenced by the political and social contexts she inhabits, as well as by ongoing states of emergency that have reshaped notions of safety and belonging. Within this framework, art becomes a form of quiet resistance and an attempt to repair the relationship between the self and the world—not through slogans or explicit narratives, but through gestures, traces, and what absence leaves behind.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions across Palestine, Europe, and the United States, including multiple pavilions at the Gaza Biennale (2024–2025), as well as exhibitions in Cairo and London, and projects organised by the Goethe-Institut. Through her practice, Madi continues to explore how art can function as a temporary space for listening, acknowledgement, and transformation.
