Masa Nazzal is an artist and researcher based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Masa’s practice engages with writing, sound, and embroidery to explore the affective ways violence and borders rupture and reshape how people inhabit the world. Her sound work draws on her background in anthropology, using field recordings that are mixed and distorted into immersive soundscapes of border spaces. Her embroidery practice engages with the Palestinian tradition of tatreez, using thread to navigate fragmentation and loss experienced through life in the diaspora.

Her work explores abolitionist perspectives of the future, imagining a world without borders where the systems that restrict movement and return to land are not enforced through violence. Through these mediums, Masa looks toward futures beyond violence, while also reflecting on the disruptions, fragmentations, and violences of the present.

She is currently a member of the creative research collectives Shock Forest Group and Insalaha Collective.

For enquiries, commissions, or conversations, you can reach out at: masa.nazzal@gmail.com