Alia Hamaoui

Born 1996 in Albi France

Lives and works in London UK

Alia Hamaoui (b.1996) is a British/Lebanese artist living and working in London, UK. Hamaoui completed her undergraduate studies at Camberwell College of Arts, and is currently studying for an MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘HINO 500’ at San Mei Gallery (London, 2023) and ‘Passing Pari-daiza’ at Soup Gallery (London, 2023). Alongside, Hamaoui has exhibited widely in London, as well as internationally in Dubai, Lisbon and Warsaw. She is a member of artist cooking collective: gobyfish collective.

Hamaoui aims to advance our understanding of the interrelationship between cultural identity, the object and place, as viewed from within our increasingly digitised society. Particularly interested in cultural artefacts that have been co-opted or utilised by the cultural industry in shaping broader narratives of regional or national identity within the SWANA.  Hamaoui’s work combines ancient objects, architectural locations, and mass media moments into materially rich sculptural amalgamations that fold the body, heritage and space into abstracted entanglements. Often utilising tricks of haptic allure, Hamaoui’s interested in the tantalization of the senses as a mechanism to question the gaze.