Salma Shaka

Salma Shaka is a Vienna-based multi-media artist and researcher raised between Palestine, Cyprus, and the UAE. Her work is an assemblage of the different landscapes she grew up in and is deeply influenced by feeding and foraging rituals from there. She explores the themes of transformation and decay through the long, slow processes of fermentation, jam-making, pickling, and cooking. Food, foremost, acts as a vessel for the summoning of ancestral ghosts and non-human entities who provide lessons of wisdom on climate justice, preservation, and indigenous imagination.