SONIC AGENCY – FIRAS SHEHADEH – “Jabalia”

Firas Shehadeh is a Palestinian artist and researcher based in Vienna. His work engages with worldbuilding, meaning, aesthetics, and identity after/on the Internet. He is interested in post-colonial effects, technology, and history. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including Images Festival (Toronto, 2024), Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2023), Filmforum (Los Angeles, 2023), Unsafe+Sounds (Vienna, 2023), Qattan Foundation (Ramallah, 2023), Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2023), the 7th Cairo Video Festival (2017), and Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014).