Salha is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London, working between painting, film, sculpture and installation. Through her exploration of movement and change, Salha utilises contradictory materials, disarmed from their original qualities and functions to create her unique visual language deeply influenced by her personal experiences and background.

“A line drawn in space curves wonkily around an alcove, its tentacles stretching around the edges and corners of the space. It arcs in on itself and does the loop the loop, and our eyes follow it darting around the space, like following the flightpath of a gnat. There is also another trace which entices the viewer: that of the shadow cast upon the wall behind. It is like a piece of temporal graffiti, an ephemeral tag as the arcs are multiplied and become even more animated, creating magical images of eyes with large lashes. The pigeon repellent spikes, harsh in origin, transform into spirited glyphs. Tania Salha’s pieces call to mind the final verses of T. S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men”: ‘Between the idea, And the reality, Between the motion, And the act, Falls the Shadow.’ “

Ian Dawson, 2022, 
Hard Times exhibition catalogue