Rabia Salfiti is a multidisciplinary artist, using various mediums such as performance, photography, and video installations in his art practice, which often involves his own body, as tools to explore, illuminate and interact with social and political boundaries, conflict and identity. The influence of his experiences and environments are weaved into the threads of his work as he explores his individual experience, and their connection to the collective.

Born in 1979 in Palestine. Salfiti graduated from Wizo School of Art and Design (2014) with distinction in Photography, acquired a diploma in Interior Design from the University of Florence in Italy, and studied philosophy at the University of Varanasi in india.

As part of his practice Rabia uses performance and interventionist actions to challenge and transgress physical and mental boundaries and highlight Social and political conventions. His “Golden balance” video installation, a metaphor of the human psyche and how it reacts to its surroundings.

In addition, his video art “Jesus transformed” examines the tension between the material and immaterial where the artist is challenging social and religious patriarchy by the fragmentation of the body and reshaping it again, yet leaving out one organ most representative of the male, the penis.

His performance art is characterised by layered stories, translating and conveying the poetic junction between the formless and the form, (See, White noise, The pilgrimage, The human portrait). His diverse visual language is engaged in an ongoing conversion with man’s entrapment in the body, the everyday details in life, always looking for the thesis and its anti thesis to create the synthesis.