Layal Srouji ليال سروجي
artist | researcher | memory worker
Layal Srouji is a designer and cultural worker with a focus in print media, public programming, and storytelling from the archive.
Selected Projects:
About
My practice is one that foregrounds relation, iteration, and tactile knowledge. Working with graphic design, paper, print, book making, and found media, I am attentive to how heritage accumulates through materials and their social engagement.
Often, my references emerge from socially engaged- collective research, collaboration, workshops.
My body of work addresses the urgent need to nourish Palestine materially.
Often, my references emerge from socially engaged- collective research, collaboration, workshops.
My body of work addresses the urgent need to nourish Palestine materially.
Books + Paper
Book + Printmaking
Kohl Container Sketchbook
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 9x12’
Materials: Mulburry paper, silk ribbon, art paper and waxed thread
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 9x12’
Materials: Mulburry paper, silk ribbon, art paper and waxed thread
Book + Printmaking
Bab el Matba3a [The printing press door]
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 9x12’
Materials: Chipboard, brass studs, prints on art paper and archival paper, wood back cover paper found in printing press
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 9x12’
Materials: Chipboard, brass studs, prints on art paper and archival paper, wood back cover paper found in printing press
Book + Printmaking
Seedo 3abdo
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 9x12’
Materials: Bound in mulberry paper prints, pages printed on various types of paper (27 lb art paper, velum, cardstock) and bound with a visible stitch through the spine.
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 9x12’
Materials: Bound in mulberry paper prints, pages printed on various types of paper (27 lb art paper, velum, cardstock) and bound with a visible stitch through the spine.
Book + Printmaking
Mother of Pearl sketchbook series
Year: 2026Dimensions:5.5x8.5’
Materials: Bound in washi and mulberry paper prints, pages printed on various types of paper (27 lb art paper, velum, cardstock), hard case bound
Misc bookmaking
Book collage
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5.5x8.5’
Materials: Bound in washi and mulberry paper prints, pages printed on various types of paper (27 lb art paper, velum, cardstock)
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5.5x8.5’
Materials: Bound in washi and mulberry paper prints, pages printed on various types of paper (27 lb art paper, velum, cardstock)
Misc bookmaking
Book collage
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5.5x8.5’
Materials: Bound in washi and mulberry paper prints, pages printed on various types of paper (27 lb art paper, velum, cardstock)
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5.5x8.5’
Materials: Bound in washi and mulberry paper prints, pages printed on various types of paper (27 lb art paper, velum, cardstock)
Graphic Design
Film Graphics
All the Papers Have a Very Big Value
Year: 2026
Collaborators: Zane Elias and Layal Srouji
Dimensions: 1080x1920, 4k
Materials: Archival/found media, film collage
Year: 2026
Collaborators: Zane Elias and Layal Srouji
Dimensions: 1080x1920, 4k
Materials: Archival/found media, film collage
Architectural project portfolio - Print Booklet
Architectural Design and Visual Culture
Project 1, Portfolio
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 8.5x11” booklet
Project 1, Portfolio
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 8.5x11” booklet
Poster Design
Columbia University School of the Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition Poster
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 33x44”
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 33x44”
Bugs
Childrensbook Character Design - Bugs
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5x8’
Materials: digital collage
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5x8’
Materials: digital collage
Graphics and layout
Bread Stamps -Zine
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5.5x8.5’
Year: 2026
Dimensions:5.5x8.5’
Event Graphic Design
Event Graphic Design
Drawing + Works on Paper
Blockprint on found paper
Year:2026
Dimensions:24x36’
Charcoal and graphite drawings from life
Year:2026
Dimensions:24x36’
Charcoal and graphite drawings from life
Studio Drawing from Life
Year:2026
Dimensions:24x36’
Charcoal and graphite drawings from life
Year:2026
Dimensions:24x36’
Charcoal and graphite drawings from life
Trinket Shelf Drawing
Year: 2026
Dimensions:24x36’
White pencil on black paper
Year: 2026
Dimensions:24x36’
White pencil on black paper
Bread Stamps Study: Prints on Mulburry
Clove Necklace: Print on Mulberry
Folkloric Card Deck
Year: 2025
Dimensions: 2.6x3.5"
This deck of cards was made for a long term project for youth programming in Wadi Hosheh, an ecofarm project in Shfa3aamr.
Objects
2oronful Wedding Necklace
Year: 2025
Materials + process:Clove necklace made by soaking cloves in water, stringing them with needle and thread, and arranging with beads.
This is a traditional Palestinian gift for a bride on her wedding day. It is believed that the smell wards off evil eye, and is a good luck charm in marriage. The clove water is also used traditionally to wash the bride before her wedding, and to spray on wedding guests as a protection against 7asad.
Materials + process:Clove necklace made by soaking cloves in water, stringing them with needle and thread, and arranging with beads.
This is a traditional Palestinian gift for a bride on her wedding day. It is believed that the smell wards off evil eye, and is a good luck charm in marriage. The clove water is also used traditionally to wash the bride before her wedding, and to spray on wedding guests as a protection against 7asad.
Practicing Critical Pessoptimism: Interactive word magnets
Year: August - September 2024
Dimensions:5x5’
Materials: Hand made word magnets on a magnetic wall.
SPC exhibit at A83 Gallery
Exhibit and workshop in collaboration with Eunsun
Dimensions:5x5’
Materials: Hand made word magnets on a magnetic wall.
SPC exhibit at A83 Gallery
Exhibit and workshop in collaboration with Eunsun
2023
Jesus Calendar [2023]
2023
11”x17"
This piece was made in reference to the yearly calendars published by Al Hakeem Printing press. These calendars are fixtures of many homes in Nazareth, they live on the walls of every home I’ve ever lived in- often displaying the January page year round. In 2023, the way I felt time shifted dramatically, and the way I perceived the future began to resemble the perpetual January of the calendar. It was as though each day was a year. This work was a way for me to reflect on this time, attempt to etch it into something more permanent than paper. The work was made by etching into tooling foil.
11”x17"
This piece was made in reference to the yearly calendars published by Al Hakeem Printing press. These calendars are fixtures of many homes in Nazareth, they live on the walls of every home I’ve ever lived in- often displaying the January page year round. In 2023, the way I felt time shifted dramatically, and the way I perceived the future began to resemble the perpetual January of the calendar. It was as though each day was a year. This work was a way for me to reflect on this time, attempt to etch it into something more permanent than paper. The work was made by etching into tooling foil.
