Lujayn Schroeder
Fine arts
Michaelis School of Fine Art
Specialisms: Fine Art / Photography / Art Curation
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Lujayn Schroeder
First Name: Lujayn
Last Name: Schroeder
Specialisms: Fine Art / Photography / Art Curation
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My Location: Cape Town, South Africa
University / College: Michaelis School of Fine Art
Course / Program Title: Fine arts
About
Lujayn Schroeder is a South African visual artist and photographer born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Cape Town, majoring in Photography.
Her practice explores memory, identity, belonging, and displacement, with a particular focus on the relationship between place and home. Having grown up in Saudi Arabia while holding South African nationality, Schroeder’s work is informed by the tension between cultural belonging and legal identity.
Working primarily with photography, she draws on portraiture, personal archives, architecture, and material traces to explore how a sense of home is formed, remembered, and carried across places.
Threshold (2025) explores identity, displacement, and belonging through photography and objects. My work emerges from living between identities and geographies, shaped by Saudi Arabia, the country of my birth, where I am denied citizenship, and South Africa, the country of my nationality and heritage. I exist in a space where belonging is provisional and home is never fixed. Doors, Roshan lattice, family archives, architectural remnants, inherited objects, and portraits become fragments of this suspended state. They explore boundaries between inclusion and exclusion and memory and loss. I use photography to preserve people, places, and histories threatened by displacement and erasure. Bringing these fragments together, Threshold constructs an imagined home from memory, relationships, and material traces. The work considers how belonging can persist beyond citizenship and geography, and how identity is continually remade when the place one calls home is no longer certain.
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