Izdihar Afyouni is a Palestinian visual artist and writer. Her creative and critical practice encompasses large-format painting, performance, installation, curation, and text. Her work is situated at the intersections of necropolitics, occultism, and sexual dissidence. She has engaged blood as subject matter and material research since 2015 across different projects.

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Her ongoing research and exhibition series THICKER THAN BLOOD explores the body as a site upon which the state expresses its power. Through participatory performance, the project posits an argument for decentralizing power by blurring the lines between participant and spectator. These subversions are explored through play, interactive media, video, and performance art.

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Her curatorial practice is concerned with facilitating conversations between queer and intersectional artists to engage with our entangled histories of imperialism through exhibitions, open-source online curations, and conceptual reading groups.‍ 

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Her work has been exhibited at National Museum of Art (Jordan), Goldsmiths CCA, The Sounthbank Centre, The Flying Dutchman Gallery, Truman Brewery, Rich Mix (London), Centrala (Birmingham), Gallery Lock-In (Brighton),  Kunstkraftwerk (Leipzig), Oyoun Gallry (Berlin), Espacio Nos (Barcelona), Yukunkun (Beirut) and Human Resources (Los Angeles), amongst others. Her writing on art, occultism, and politics, as well as short fiction and a stage play has been published by Worms Magazine, Shoal Collective, Cuntemporary, MARCH and Paraphilia Collective.  

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For studio inquiries please email izzyafyouni@gmail.com

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