Melissa Ghazale (Lebanon, 1992) is a video and performance artist and researcher whose work deeply investigates the nuances of language, particularly in the context of algorithmic censorship. Through video and live performance, their work explores how language shifts according to the different spaces of enunciation. Beyond their personal practice, they are an independent curator who experiments with community-centered exhibitions that respond to social crises, emphasizing collaborative, non-hierarchical production methods. Her main curatorial works were in Beirut ARCANA I, II, III: the witch gatherings, I Don’t Want to Talk, But… at Zico House and Art Education in the Middle-East I, II along with Miha Viptonik.


They are currently based in Switzerland and have recently showed their works at Bureau des Questions Importantes #8 Eeeeh! (Nyon), Space Invasion #3 Fabienne Levy Gallery (Geneva), Just In Time Live in Your Head (Geneva), and participated in the table ronde on Diversity and Institutions with Noemie Michel at CALM (Lausanne).