Joud Toamah is a multidisciplinary graphic designer and artist-researcher from Syria, currently based in Belgium. Working across multiple media, publishing, writing, video, sound, and image-making, her practice engages displacement and re-memberance within personal and collective memory. Currently She is undergoing an artistic research that centers water cultures, and water as a site of witness and resistance amid militarization and infrastructural violence during and in post-dictatorship Syria along the watery places she loves by the Euphrates.
She is currently coordinating the Advanced Master of Art and Design Research (AdMa), and co-preparing a course on ‘Islamic Ways of Knowing and Aesthetic Practices’ at Sint Lucas Antwerp.
She have participated in residencies at Frans Masereel Centrum, Futures Photography, and Morpho. Her work has been presented at Photoforumpasquart, FOMU – Museum of Photography, Beursschouwburg, Globe Aroma, and Constant.