Aya Bseiso

architect and curator

Aya Bseiso was born in Tunis and is based in Amman. Her practice relies heavily on research, text, and sampling of various archival materials. Bseiso is interested in experimenting with the various ways it is possible to engage, build relationships, and embed oneself in distant ecosystems—traveling between borders—by utilizing telepresence, simulating micro-climates, or rendering landscapes that probe different futures.

Her work responds to the tensions, and potentials of moving between the role of artist and curator. She experiments with the possibilities and potentials of artists to create the parameters of the production and exhibition of their work—collectively or individually—while negotiating, understanding, and experimenting with the relations between institutions, independent spaces, and artists. Whether as part of her work at MMAG Foundation—a contemporary art institution in Jordan—the collectives she is a part of, or her research projects, she seeks to engage in the search for, development of, and potentials of artistic and curatorial practice amidst the fluctuating sociopolitical context of the region.