Anhar Salem is a multidisciplinary artist with a multi-ethnic background (Yemeni and Indonesian).
Self-taught, Salem studied Information Technology at the Arab Open University in Jeddah, completed a postgraduate degree at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing. Her artistic practice explores, documents and reveals private spaces to the public realm through themes of everyday life, the body, and social media. Working primarily with video, Salem draws an emphasis on new forms of communication that critique video as a medium. She often improvises with her iPhone camera, working collaboratively with subjects and characters to foreground processes around the marginalization of people and their images.
Selected exhibitions, festivals and screenings : The Future is Unmanned, La Haed, Switzerland (2024);Tampere Film Festival (Finland, 2022); Cité internaronale des art (Paris, 2023).