Solange Adum Abdala
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Bio
Solange Adum Abdala is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent and is based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations. Solange has exhibited in solo and group shows and festivals internationally. She received First Place at the ICPNA Photography Salon in 2011, and her work has been featured in Collage: Women of the Prix Pictet. In 2024, she was awarded the Affiliated Fellowships Master’s Program Award at UBC. She was selected for the 2025 Launch Pad project in Vancouver. In 2020, she co-founded Galería Pública, a platform that promotes contemporary photo-based arts production in Peru.
Research Interests
Solange is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and photographer whose work is shaped by the legacy of uprooting and mobility inherited from her family, influencing her perception of territory and belonging. Rooted in photography and landscape, she began by photographing surfaces and now digs into their depths. Her research moves between photography, history, and knowledge of nature, approached through both scientific and sensorial lenses. She investigates how the photographic apparatus and technical image have served dominant narratives as tools of indoctrination. Through her practice, she explores notions of space-time, landscape, and the Anthropocene. Her installations integrate photography, collage, video, sound, performance, archives, and digital tools, articulating flatness and three-dimensionality in space. Conceived as a «de/re/construcción», her practice reveals, dismantles, and reconfigures surfaces, opening space to question imposed representations of nature and affirm multiple experiences.
24/25 Courses
| Course Name | Department | Course Code | Term | ||||
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| Photography | PHOT 206 | 26/SP | |||||
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