In November 2022, Sallam held a residency position with the
Sainsbury Centre at the
University of East Anglia, in Norwish, United-Kingdom, where she worked with the Sainsbury Collection. Sallam produced
Come to Your House, a mixed media installation that questioned what it meant to see art museums displaying artifacts that were closely associated with death. Sallam emphasizes the displacement of Egyptian antiquities in the museum space by using ancient religious motifs to communicate “modern anxieties round death”. Sallam was invited by curator Paolo Del Vesco in an attempt for the museum to present alternative perspectives on Egyptology and challenge the authority of institutions. By playing with notions of the sanctity of the tomb and the Pharaoh's body, Sallam engages with Egypt's past intellectually and emotionally. Based on secondhand accounts, the guests who attended the exhibition were moved greatly by Sallam's work. Alice Stevenson remarks that "Egyptology scholars were reportedly more likely to express scepticism about the value of the intervention than non-Egyptological museum professionals in the building." Following her exhibition in Turin, in 2023, Sallam had an intervention in the
Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire's exhibition: ''Expedition d'Égypte
. For this exhibition, Sallam put together three new works based on her independent research: Home Outside of Home
, A Layer of Salt for my Oblivion
, and If I Can Be Heard in the Place Where You Are''. These were included in the exhibition along with four other of Sallam's works. One of which was Sallam's video installation
I Prayed for the Resin not to Melt (2020) that presents a counter narrative to the history of excavation.
I Prayed for the Resin not to Melt was the first contemporary art piece to be added to the Egyptology collection, and became a permanent installation in the museum. == References ==