Visual Art
Saria exhibited work both in the U.S. and internationally, mainly in juried group exhibitions and with festivals and pop-ups. Saria is working on their first solo show “Broken” to open in March.
"Broken" opens 2023 at Arts Fort Worth. This will be a solo exhibition in which Saria revisits photos taken back in Damascus during the peak of the revolution. They explore these photos with reflections and questions they have 12 years later through typographic interventions.
"Tayf" is the body of work Saria worked on immediately after arriving in the U.S. At the time, Saria was in a state of shock. Not being able to process what had happened in Syria, what it had meant to seek asylum and lose their home. In this project, they revisit the photos they had taken randomly in the cities of the country they now call home and explore them with saturated colors and reformations to reflect Saria's reality at the time. The contrast is the capture, and it is uncomfortable. This series' works were exhibited in multiple exhibitions such as Fort Works Art's First Come First Serve, ArtsGoggle 2018 + ArtsGoggle 2019, Third Thursday 2019 with Near Southside, Rebel Rebel, and F*ck Your Art Degree with House of Iconoclasts.
Inspired by the topic of selfhood, specifically its different interpretations by both artists and curators throughout art history, Saria creates a few self-portraits a year, only a few, and only during intense or vulnerable moments. Moments that were so pivotal and transformative in their life. Saria also aims to capture the versatility and change in being queer, the honest realization that exploring gender and queerness is a constant transformative state.