After welcoming the Iranian duo Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian, the Pinault Collection has invited Saudi artist Anhar Salem as the next artist in residence to carry out a new project, beginning in October 2025.
Anhar Salem is a multidisciplinary artist with a multi-ethnic background (Yemeni and Indonesian). Salem studied Information Technology at the Arab Open University in Jeddah, then completed a postgraduate degree at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing. Her artistic practice explores, documents, and reveals private spaces to the public realm through themes of everyday life, the body, and social media. Working primarily with video, Salem draws an emphasis on new forms of communication that critique video as a medium. She often improvises with her iPhone camera, working collaboratively with her subjects and characters as a means to foreground processes around the marginalization of people and their images.
Salem's work has been recognized with several awards, including the Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize (2025), Révélation Art Numérique – Art Vidéo / ADAGP Prize (2021, France), the Prix Around Video Art Fair / Renato et Catherine Casciani (2021, France), the Radar Award at Curtocircuíto International Film Festival (2022, Spain), and the Prix Analix Forever / Galerie Analix (2021, France).
She has participated in several artist residencies, including the Pickle Bar Residency with Slavs and Tatars (Berlin, 2022), the Almansouria Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2023–2024), the Heretige and Innovation Residency (AlUla, 2024), and the Pinault Collection Artist Residency (Lens, 2025–2026).
Her solo exhibition “Mashallah. Why Did You Wander Out?” was presented at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris (2023). She has also participated in prominent group exhibitions, including “THE FUTURE IS UNMANNED” at La HEAD (2024, Switzerland), “I Took a Screenshot of the Whole World” at POUSH (2023, France).
