Sofia Saleh is a Franco — Algerian/Yemenite artist – Born in 1991 in Marseille France.

After losing her father to suicide, she became very intrigued in the traces that people leave behind them. While not focusing on death so much but more of the traces, in their everyday lives.

As she graduated from Aix-en-Provence University, she began by taking pictures of what people left behind them on the street leading her to going to abandoned places. After years of research in France, she moved to New York City, where she began to create, using gum as a medium. She realized, that people discarded chewed up gum on the street and that was a meaningful footprint of their passage with their DNA in it. She envisions each piece of gum as an individual.

She left her camera behind to now create abstract paintings using gum as her paint.