Overview
Samah Hijawi is an artist, cultural activist and consultant for Makan, an art space in Amman, Jordan. As an artist she works across disciplines and has a particular interest in participatory works and interventions in public space Hijawi’s recent works include: This works does not mean anything to me, Musings on art and art discourse (2011) and an intervention in the National Gallery of Fine Arts, Jordan, Politics, Chicken Scribbles and the Pigeon that looks like a Frog (2010-ongoing), which the development of aesthetics in Jordan are investigated against the backdrop of the political transformations that have taken place in the Levant over the last 50 years. Hijawi received a BA from the Lebanese American University, Lebanon (1999) and an MA from Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design, London (2005).