Moza Almatrooshi Emirati, b. 1990
Biography
Moza Almatrooshi is a multimedia conceptual artist based in Sharjah, UAE. Her work centers around storytelling, and power in social dynamics. Her focus on storytelling emerges in a magic realist form, reshaping historical narratives, playing with genres of stories such as fables or the coherence of stories through misaligned or partial translations, and strategically using il/legibility and silences to critique hegemony.
The artist’s concern with power in social relations manifests in examinations of hospitality, gender, nation, and military forces. Almatrooshi combines a variety of media to best articulate her message, working across audio, video, performance, food, land art, ceramics, and screenprinting.
Moza Almatrooshi in her practice looks at narratives from ancient and contemporary mythologies in the Arabian Peninsula, and the ways in which they uphold nation building techniques. This culminates in fictions and metaphors derived from regional food production practices and food politics.
In 2019 Moza gained an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (UK) and a diploma in culinary arts from ICCA Dubai (UAE) in 2020. Her artworks have been performed in the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), selected by the ICA and BBC for the New Creatives project, and displayed in the second Lahore Biennale. Her writings have been published in ArabLit Quarterly, and by the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo.
She lives and works in the UAE as an multidisciplinary artist and pastry chef.
Exhibitions
Art Fairs
Essays and Publications
Press
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(YALLA) INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: Exploring the arts, feminism and politics of it all with Moza Almatrooshi
Caroline D’Almeida, Yalla Abu Dhabi Life, March 16, 2024 -
(Vogue Arabia) Art Dubai 2023: Meet the Four Emirati Artists Bringing a Diverse Range of Disciplines to the Fair
Jumana Abdel-Razzaq, Vogue Arabia, March 24, 2023 -
Stepping Away: Performance as Practice in the Non-West
Warehouse421, November 18, 2021 -
‘Staple: What’s on your plate?’
November 1, 2021 -
Episode 1: Gallery Girl meets Moza Almatrooshi
Lizzy Vartanian Collier , Gallery Girl, April 16, 2021