Diana Bou Salman

Born in Paris, Diana Bou Salman is a multidisciplinary artist and architect with a Master’s degree in Architecture. Her practice focuses on set design and scenography within the art and cultural sectors, where she collaborates with esteemed institutions and museums across France. She also engages in academia, leading workshops at the National Superior Architecture School of Paris Malaquais and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts since 2021.

Bou Salman’s work intertwines the poetic and the spatial, blending imagery and architecture to craft narratives that explore themes of belonging and the intimacy of space. Through video installations and sculptural works, she reimagines spaces, transforming everyday objects and settings into evocative artistic expressions. Her projects often draw from diverse production techniques to bring her visions to life, resulting in creations that balance the tactile and the conceptual.

Bou Salman’s exploration of ‘dwelling’ as a poetic and existential concept has been a recurring theme in her practice, evolving into profound interpretations of identity, heritage and memory.

Her recent exhibitions include ‘Duo Up!’ at MACAM in Aalita, Lebanon (2023), where she explored the concept of dwelling alongside artist Anthony El Khoury through sculptures, videos and paintings that reinterpreted the living space, from the intimacy of a bedroom to urban and geographical scales. 

For ‘Encounters 2023’ at Galerie Janine Rubeiz in Beirut (2023), she presented ‘Collectibles’, a series of 25 ceramics that examined the relationship between objects, identity and heritage. Using French clay mixed with Lebanese soil and sand, the works evoked memories of Lebanon and transformed mundane objects into totemic artifacts symbolising displacement and belonging. 

In ‘Moi Cristal’ at the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Lacoux, France (2022), a collective exhibition exploring transparency, Bou Salman’s contribution included a filmed ballet of gazes and a series of ceramics imagining the interior universe of the eye, delving into the symbolic and material facets of vision.

In 2024, Bou Salman joined ARC Paris as a resident artist, continuing to expand her artistic explorations.