GCR

GCR

Participating Artist

Salsabel Saed

Born 2002

Salsabel Saed

Biography

Salsabel Saed (b. 2002) is a visual artist from Arraba al-Batuf, Israel, and a graduate of the Art and Education program at Oranim College. Her practice explores identity, loss, memory, and the body, drawing on personal experience and transforming it into broader questions about human experience. From childhood, Saed was influenced by both visual art and ballet, which she studied for nine years. This experience deepened her interest in the relationship between the body, emotion, and non-verbal expression. Working experimentally across painting, sculpture, and ceramics, she approaches material as an active participant in the creative process and as a means of translating internal experience into tangible visual traces. Her work examines the persistence of memory and identity following loss, and the relationships between presence and absence, pain and the possibility of repair. Rather than proposing definitive answers, Saed uses her practice to raise open questions about internal transformation and the reconstruction of the self. She intends to continue developing her artistic language, particularly through ceramics and multidisciplinary practice.

Final Project

Selected Works from the Study Period

My Heart Aches

My Heart Aches

2025

Mixed media

32 × 23 cm

Loss

Loss

2024

Collage

70 × 100 cm

Cracks of Blood

Cracks of Blood

2023

Etching

52 × 77 cm