Atorina Adam (b.1988 Märsta) is a Swedish-Assyrian artist and art educator. Adam works with political issues such as the environment, feminism and she is particularly interested in investigating what it is like to be a woman In-betweenship. She uses different materials, mediums and techniques: ceramics, textiles, screen printing, illustrations and large-scale installations, video works and performance.

Adam has studied at Konstfack for the Department of Image and Crafts Pedagogy. As a degree project, Adam presented the performance work/workshop ‘In-betweenship – an ambivalence right or wrong´. There she collaborated with Emil Hernried, Juan José Iragorri, Ali Safi and Wasim Harwill, who themselves experienced an In-betweenship and studied at various aesthetic training courses around Sweden. The work is based on the experience of living in an In-betweenness state. With this work, she has also participated in Science Week 2023 in Södertälje, produced by Grafikens Hus.

During the years at Konstfack, she created the work ‘The beautiful In-betweenship’ where both of Adam’s cultures meet: the Assyrian and the Swedish. Adam has previously worked as an art educator at Havremagasinet kunsthall in Boden, Grafikens Hus and today works as an art educator at an upper secondary in Piteå.

Adams has for the last years been working with In-betweenship in art – to find a balance in her two worlds. No matter who we are or where we come from, we may all have a diverse identity. She wants to bring forth the complexity in the different worlds that exists in a person, especially in a home with several cultures. Her work is often intersectional. A person should not have to choose a story, we always have several layers and stories within us. Layers and stories that ultimately shape who we are. Words, symbols, tradition and archetypes often lie as the foundation for the stories we tell. Art can work as a healing process and through that process we can gain knowledge about ourselves and the world. Our own history is part of the society’s history because we are all a part of it.