• Mirna is a multidisciplinary artist who discusses themes of food with ceramics
• She aims to revive disappearing Palestinian cooking recipes and food rituals
• Her ceramic installations complement other practices such as dinner performances

Mirna Bamieh is a Jerusalem-born artist based between Palestine and Lisbon, who explores memory, loss and displacement through ceramics, sound, film and food. Her practice has centred on the politics of disappearance since 2011, and in 2017 she founded Palestine Hosting Society to research recipes at risk of vanishing from Palestinian kitchens. "Fermentation became a parallel interest of mine, for its slow, unseen processes which can offer lessons in collaboration beyond human rules," shares Mirna. Her recent work traces disappearing rituals, including a Nablus tradition of clove necklaces once made for brides, through the mediums of film and ceramic installations. "I consider each installation as a multi-voiced story, and the ceramic vessels as witnesses to a difficult era," Mirna says.