Edible ecology and cooking methods
Moza Almatrooshi
Research residency
2024
The duration of the residency will be spent exploring the island’s edible ecology and cooking methods, and establishing cooking tools with found natural objects. The residency will unfold across the year with the changing seasons and repeat the same research methodology, resulting in art forms, menus, meals, and sustainable farming proposals.
Moza Almatrooshi
Moza Almatrooshi is a Sharjah-based artist and pastry chef. She describes her practice as one of looking at "narratives from ancient and contemporary mythologies in the Arabian Peninsula" as they relate to nation-building, which, in her work, "culminates in fictions and metaphors derived from regional food production practices and food politics."
In 2019 she earned an MFA from Slade School of Fine Art, London, followed by a diploma in culinary arts from ICCA Dubai in 2020. She is also a recipient of the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Emerging Artists Fellowship (SEAF), cohort of 2014–15.
Her works have been featured in biennials such as Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023), Lahore Biennale 02 (2020) and the XX Bienal Internacional De Artes Visuales De Santa Cruz De La Sierra (2016), as well as museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK) and the ICA (UK). Her writings have been published in ArabLit Quarterly, and by the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo. Alongside running her art practice, she is currently a full time pastry chef.
