Jamilah Sabur

Jamilah Sabur is an artist and writer whose practice is a poetic excavation of history, geology, and language. Her work decodes the eternal syntax of the planet, treating foundational realms such as the deep-sea floor and atmospheric Rossby waves as ineffable scripts—archival texts that hold the transmuted story of our collective existence. Working across film, architectural interventions, and experimental lectures, Sabur thrives in the gaps of history: the nuances lost in the translation between a physical event and its digital or linguistic representation. She is driven by a profound curiosity, always looking for connections between things, and a desire to dismantle disciplinary silos, treating the planetary scale and the infinitesimal as a singular, continuous field of study.

Founder of the experimental magazine The Artefact Echo, Sabur’s recent group exhibitions include At the End(s) of the World at Garage Rotterdam, Netherlands; Fruits of Labour at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium; Aan de rand van de Hemel: Visioenen at Museum Krona, Uden, Netherlands; Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, California. Her solo presentations include The Harvesters at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; and La montagne fredonne sous l’océan / The mountain sings underwater at Fondation PHI, Montréal. Her work is held in permanent collections including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the central bank of the Netherlands. Sabur lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.