Sara Jajou

is an Assyrian-Chaldean artist working at the intersection of contemporary histories and ancient futures. 


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Selected Works
  1. Shimane ‘d Bakhtathe 
  2. Apparitions
  3. I like to be a girl with fur
  4. (My mother's song) أغنية أمي
  5. I met my lover barefoot
  6. My Jidu tells good stories
  7. English-Sureth Dictionary
PublicationsShimane ‘d Bakhtathe, ‘A thousand years ago...’ , Garland Magazine, Melbourne (2026)

Sara Jajou, Shimane d’ Bakhtathe, 2026, 500 x 500mm and 470 x 460mm, photo: Sara Jajou


Sara Jajou crochets the names of her Assyrian foremothers back into memory, tracing a family line broken by genocide, migration and quiet, deliberate stitches.

Access here.

English Sureth Dictionary Project, ‘Mother Tongue’, iSTASYON editions, Istanbul (2026)
Sara Jajou, English-Sureth Dictionary, 2023, paper, 30 x 130mm x 290mm.

Sara Jajou writes about her ongoing dictionary project, Assyrian settlership and language attritition in the context of decolonisation. Access here.

 The gaze is a knife: body-country, RMIT University, Melbourne (2025)
Sara Jajou, Vanishing Act, 2025, single channel video, 3min51s


Sara Jajou analyses her video work, Vanishing Act (2025), in relation to Otherness and the veil as an enduring fantasy of exposure under the Western gaze. Access here.
My Jidu tells good stories but his Jidu tells them better, Transference Magazine, Melbourne (2025)
Sara Jajou, My Jidu tells good stories but his Jidu tells them better, 2023, 8mm film, 13 min,  single channel video projection onto curtain installation. 

Art feature on Tranference Magazine. Read here.



My calluses are soft and tender, ‘18.3 Sabaar’, un Magazine, Melbourne (2024)

An Assyrian party in Melbourne from family archives, 1999. Photographer unknown.


Sara Jajou writes about traditional Assyrian dancing and the intergenerational trauma that is passed down through the body. Read here.


Feeding the War on Terror, RMIT University Reshaping Worlds (2023)

Rakowitz M (2009) Enemy Kitchen, The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum [photograph], The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Texas, michaelrakowitz.com 

Sara Jajou analyses the sociological and intercultural conditions of the U.S. within which Michael Rakowitz’ ongoing series of cooking workshops, ‘Enemy Kitchen’ (2003-present), are situated.
The RMIT ReShaping Worlds publication is no longer active.