Shayma Hamad is a multidisciplinary and performance artist. She was born in Jerusalem and has been based in Spain since 2024. She graduated with a degree in Law from Birzeit University in 2019. Her practice explores relational aesthetics shaped by unwritten “customary” laws, social norms, and living codes within the complex dynamics of communities navigating colonialism, occupation, and environmental conditions, in order to imagine and give form to alternative systems of living.
She is currently focusing on the project Food in Law, founded in 2018 as an extension of her artistic activism, which often examines human rights and social justice. Food in Law brings audiences together to experience and index knowledge through taste and its cultural formations. Inspired by feminist folklore tools such as food, embroidery, and feminist storytelling methods, the project treats food as a language —an intimate relational aesthetic that activates memories of real and imagined tastes and flavors, where comedy and tragedy meet to find a perfect synthesis in addressing legal human issues.
