Visual artist Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi Follow.Art Card

About me

Ieva Saudargaitė Douaihi is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, architecture, and material research. Rooted in an ongoing exploration of vernacular landscapes, memory, and overlooked ecologies, her practice spans image-making, spatial interventions, and hybrid objects composed of found objects, natural matter and household materials. Drawing on her background in architecture and a deep sensitivity to ecological and social entanglements, she engages with overlooked spaces and slow processes of growth, decay, and adaptation.

Through layered relationships between nature, memory, and the built environment, Douaihi explores how spaces carry histories, absences, and the potential for renewal. Her work gives form to questions of permanence, access, and belonging—unfolding as quiet gestures that trace the ways in which people and places shape, resist, or intertwine with one another.

Douaihi studied architecture at the Lebanese American University in Byblos and École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris; she grew up between Lithuania, the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon.

Since 2022, she has been running Takeover, an artist-led project space and para-institution in Beirut. She was also a member of the Lebanese photography collective Collectif ١٢٠٠