Lina Issa (1981) is a mother, artist, and writer among several other identities. She lives in Palermo and works between different contexts and geographies. Lina left Lebanon for a postgraduate research fellowship in Fine Arts at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, The Netherlands (2003-2005). She then earned a Master in Visual Arts from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL (2006). Since then she has worked, alone and in collaboration with others, in a range of media like performance, writing, video, cultural programming. 

Lina’s work revolves around themes of embodied memory, displacement and the performativity of (cultural)identity. Lina moves across different temporalities, places, bodies, stories, remembered and imagined through which a complex multi-layered cartography of embodied places, histories and memories unfold and through which the question of what if you’d take my place, can you feel what I feel? Is being intimately explored.