Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian sound and visual artist whose work explores the collision of technology with a rapidly evolving political landscape, with an interest in a post-colonial and globalised Middle East. Her work examines sense-making in the wake of narrative collapse, brought on by the disorienting effects of digital life.
Her practice spans audiovisual performance, moving image, sound, sculpture, and computational processes. She works with found material, synthetic imagery, and live sound, often developing projects as modular systems that shift between installation, performance, and online circulation. Her work has been presented at institutions including the V&A, Somerset House Studios, Showroom, Ibraaz, and the ICA.
Majali completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art in 2022 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Tufts University. Formerly an engineer, she turned to artistic practice out of an urgency to archive and examine accelerated cultural and political shifts in the Arab world.
She will participate in the 2026 edition of the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement in Tunis.