Tewa Barnosa (b.1998) is a Trans-disciplinary artist and cultural producer born in Tripoli and based in Amsterdam, her artistic practice spans across trajectories of visual arts, time-based media, and curatorial collaborations, her body of work consists of audio-visual installations, text, performance, expanded paintings and objects that are her tools and toys for investigating taboos and territories on the margins, Grounded in critical curiosity- and research based knowledge re-interpretation and re-production(s), She finds observations in historical and political contradiction, contemporary polarities, and the transitional “in-between” physical, psychological and public spaces.
Through recontextualization of source materials, generated fiction and mythologies or investigated historical archives, She repositions fragments of evidence concerning human alienation and socio-ecological turbulence, intersecting with frameworks of war laboratories and the violations of cognitive and cultural means of resistance. Her pedagogical and curatorial methodology are informed by researching, organizing and engaging in the local Libyan context, she initiated WaraQ art space in 2015 centering around collaborative processes such as exhibition projects, publishing, space-making, and public interventions to facilitate nomadic infrastructures of co-creation and conversations.
Barnosa is currently a post-grad Sonology student at the Royal conservatoire in The hague 2024-2025, and an Alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten 2021-2023, a recipient of the Iwaelwahaus african artist award 2021, and the Berlin based fellowship for artists at risk by the Martin roth initiative 2019-2020.