Joud Toamah is a Syrian artist and designer based in Belgium, working across moving image, publishing and research. Her practice engages the Euphrates river as a witness against histories of militarism, displacement and ecological transformation, exploring memory and relation in contexts of erasure. She works with listening and transmission as ways of staying in relation, engaging with fragmented archives and forms of knowledge that emerge through collaboration and acts of imagining otherwise.
Working between design and artistic research, she approaches publishing and design as practices of translation, attention and relation. Her work unfolds through slow processes, shaped by fragmentation, rupture and poetic gestures.
She coordinates the Advanced Master of Art and Design Research (AdMa) and co-lectures Islamic Ways of Knowing and Aesthetic Practices with researcher Ruth Loos. She has undertaken residencies at Moussem, Frans Masereel Centrum, Futures Photography and Morpho. Her work has been presented at Monty, Photoforumpasquart, FOMU Museum of Photography and Beursschouwburg, among other venues.