Fatma Shanan’s works wish to explore the duality between individual sovereignty on one hand, and cohesion on the other. She is inspired by the writings of the American poet Walt Whitman, who states that nature is where human freedom resides in its purest form. Shanan’s work has been exhibited at Kunsthaus Zurich, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, and DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM Gallery, Berlin, among .other institutions