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![Untilted]( "Untilted")
infoOngoing series of 56 handmade ceramic tiles. Screenshots received during periods of conflict are transferred onto the tiles. Each tile functions as a pixel,drawing from the geometry of Moroccan zellige. The image moves from the instant and immaterial space of the screen into a material that is fragile and highly durable.
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Stills from the video conversation “What Is the Scope of the Gulf Separating Us — with my father.” Our hands meet over objects found in his old suitcase. In this filmed conversation with my father, we open a suitcase that has travelled across generations and places, using its contents to speak about memory, displacement, and the urgency of holding onto stories that risk disappearing, with time, with war, and with silence.
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![Do Not Transfer The Image. We implore you.]( "Do Not Transfer The Image. We implore you.")
infoBeirut southern suburbs, August 2025. An image from an area struck in September 2024. Handwritten note in Arabic that reads repeatedly as the following: Do Not Transfer the Image. We Implore You. Following the surveillance essay.
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infoFrom the collage series Stitching Roses and War. This scanned intervention combines two moments: my father’s photograph of his destroyed office, taken in the 1980s when he briefly returned to what was once called the Green Line, the no-man’s land dividing East and West Beirut, and a screenshot from a video my sister sent from Beirut in May 2024, showing the crater left by the assassination of Sayyed Nasrallah. Across these ruptures, this collage work traces how sites of loss and memory overlap within a single image
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infoStills from the video conversation “What Is the Scope of the Gulf Separating Us, with a cartographer. We discuss the content from the suitcase
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![“What Is the Scope of the Gulf Separating Us"]( "“What Is the Scope of the Gulf Separating Us\"")
infoStills from the video conversation “What Is the Scope of the Gulf Separating Us, with a cartographer. We discuss the content from the suitcase
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infoStills from the MAPS Grad show at KABK, conversation around the suitcase with a visitor - photo credit: Sara Ito
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info1/3 of a performance, which included handling the materials of my father’s suitcase to the public and ripping off a printed rose. Reading out loud diary entries as part of the work “What is the Scope of the Gulf Separating Us?” Video courtesy of Fabio Meinardi
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infoScreenprinted rose, image from WhatsApp, on linen on top of a screengrab from an aerial view of Beirut under siege, on foam surface. The tearing apart of the rose was part of a performance.
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![Don’t You Forget About Me]( "Don’t You Forget About Me")
infoOver several months, from winter to summer, I worked with a group of children at a reception centre in collaboration with De Vrolijkheid. The project unfolded in an environment shaped by constant rotation and uncertainty, and the shared camera became our way of creating a sense of continuity together. The workshops centred on co-creation, personal expression and anonymity, allowing the children to participate freely without being identified.
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![Don’t You Forget About Me]( "Don’t You Forget About Me")
infoStills from the disposable camera of Eldana
Websites
Artist website
www.sarahroseantoun.comSocial media
Member of a professional association/artists’ association
FotoDok
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2023 - 2025Photography & Society (Master of Fine Arts and Design) Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2022 - 2023Ethnographic theater in French and English La Sorbonne Université
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2019 - 2020Oil painting and illustration Slade School of Fine Art (London, UK):
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2017 - 2020BA (Hons) Journalism Goldsmiths, University of London diploma
exhibitions
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2025As Water Softens Stones Royal Academy of Arts The Hague The Hague, Netherlands Graduation Show graduation.kabk.nl/2025/sarah-rose-antoun Group
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2025Fotomuseum Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Activated Image Symposium, visual respondent to artists Randa Mirza www.instagram.com/p/DIyDd47NKxm/?hl=ne Group
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2025Picturing Scholasticide Kunstgang Leiden University Leiden, Netherlands The exhibition visualises the destruction of Palestinian educational institutions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/06/launching-picturing-scholasticide-preserving-knowledge-culture-and-lives Group
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2025Push, Pull, Shift Živi Atelje DK Zagreb, Croatia Week-long research that resulted in a publication and a project in a group exhibition at Živi Atelje DK Group
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202400:05:59* Paradise The Hague, Netherlands Exhibition, which is the result of a collective research process in collaboration with the Embassy of the North Sea and the Doggerland Foundation. Starting from the shared principle: the sea owns itself, they explore effective strategies to strengthen the independence of the sea as an entity. www.embassyofthenorthsea.com/events/000559-group-exhibition-kabk/ Group
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2024Fragments in Transit Beetroot Design House Thessaloniki , Greece Exhibition of work in the pop-up exhibition “Fragments in Transit” at Beetroot Design House for a day following a week-long research trip in Greece. phlsph-lab.com/news Group
Projects
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2025
What Is the Scope of the Gulf Separating Us The Hague, Beirut, Netherlands A suitcase my father packed in Lebanon in the 1970s, reopened during the 2024 war. A performance and installation built from a father-daughter correspondence, daily images, roses, and ruins, that asks how conflict is experienced through screens and how intimacy and violence travel through the same channels.
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2024
Don’t You Forget About Me Stitching De Vrolijkheid Katwijk, Netherlands A collaborative photography project made with six children living in an asylum seeker centre in Katwijk. Cameras circulated between us. Authorship shifted. Some children were transferred or deported before the project ended. That absence is also in the archive.
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Untitled ceramic installation The Hague, Netherlands Ongoing. Screenshots received during periods of conflict transferred onto handmade ceramic tiles. Each tile functions as a pixel,drawing from the geometry of Moroccan zellige. The image moves from the instant and immaterial space of the screen into a material that is fragile and highly durable.
Commissions
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2025Family Jewellery Making St de Vrolijkheid Katwijk, Netherlands A three-month-long workshop with families in the AZC center of Katwijk, which was about making photographs into something tangible: images that can be held, carried, kept close. Here we choose together the format of photos onto lockets finished
Publications
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2026We Use It to Document, They Use It to Target Us Sarah-Rose Antoun Netherlands Essay, Forthcoming. An investigation into how civilian images shared on WhatsApp and Instagram during the war in Lebanon feed into military surveillance infrastructure, and how the civil contract of photography collapses when the image is no longer safe to make.
Awards and grants
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2025Lighthouse Talent Program FOTODOK, Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands A competitive annual program supporting early-career artists working with photography and adjacent practices. Includes mentorship, network development, and institutional exposure within the Dutch photography field.