Kiki Salem: At The Last Sky

Name: Kiki Salem: At The Last Sky
Start: 2025-10-03T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-03T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 2701 Cherokee St, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63118

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2701 Cherokee St, St. Louis, MO, United States, Missouri 63118 | St. Louis, MO

At the Last Sky
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3, 6–9pm
On view October 3 – December 13, 2025
The Luminary is proud to present At the Last Sky, a solo exhibition by St. Louis-based, Palestinian artist Kiki Salem. Through vibrant sculpture, fiber, painting, and installation, Salem reanimates Palestinian embroidery motifs into immersive, maximalist forms. Her work transforms the gallery into a landscape of memory and resistance, where cultural fragments and patterns become tools of survival, imagination, and worldbuilding.
Artist Bio
Kiki Salem (b. 1995, Al-Bireh, Palestine) is a St. Louis–based artist whose practice blends traditional Palestinian Tatreez with experimental approaches to material, scale, and color. Born to a Palestinian father and a Palestinian-Brazilian mother, she creates hybrid works that span tapestry, sculpture, murals, animation, and print. Salem is also the creator of PunkAssArab, a wearable graphic project exploring the Arabic language and diasporic identity. Her work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cue Art Foundation (NYC), and internationally in Palestine and Jordan, and has been featured in Hyperallergic, Vogue, GQ Middle East, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is a member of Screwed Arts Collective in St. Louis.