Joud Toamah جود الطعمة

B. 1992, Deir-Ezzour, Syria. Currenlty residing in Belgium.

Joud Toamah is a multidisciplinary graphic designer and artist researcher whose practice spans publishing, video, sound, and image. Her work engages with displacement and re-memberance across personal and collective memory. Her current artistic research centres water cultures, exploring water as a site of witness and resistance amid militarisation and infrastructural violence in Syria, alongside the watery places she loves by the Euphrates.

She is currently coordinating the advanced master of art and design research (AdMa), and co-teaching ‘Islamic Ways of Knowing and Aesthetic Practices’ with researcher Ruth Loos.

Toamah has participated in residencies at Moussem, Futures Photography Amsterdam, and Morpho. Her work has been presented at Photoforumpasquart, FOMU – Museum of Photography, Beursschouwburg, among other venues.