A multimedia artist, writer and astrologer, Samah Hijawi’s projects are deeply rooted in historical narratives that re-imagine our contemporary life beyond the radicalised and polarised discourses that direct our lives today. In her recent project Kitchen. Table. she researches the histories and cosmologies of the food on our tables. Hijawi recently completed a PhD in Art Practice with a work titled Chicken Scribbles and the Dove that Looks Like a Frog, where she explored deconstructing colonial representations of Palestine through performance and collage. This gave birth to Aesthetics of the Political, a curated and pedagogical project that explored how artists materialise their political ideas and positions in an aesthetic form. Earlier in her career, Hijawi collaborated with Ola El-Khalidi and Diala Khasawneh in running Makan (2003-2016), an independent space for contemporary art in Amman, Jordan. Additionally, together with Shuruq Harb and Toleen Touq, she co-curated the platform The River has Two Banks (2012-2017), an initiative addressing the distances and proximities between Jordan and Palestine.