Adam Ben David (b. 2000, Montréal) is a contemporary artist working across sound, text, performance and sculptural installation. Through these mediums, he seeks to explore sites where collective memory collides with private experience, and where the factors that politicize the Jewish diasporic experience (history, Zionism, ritual, and antisemitism) play out. By harnessing memory and connection across space and time, Adam traces a wandering Mizrahi lineage that becomes his to transmit, thereby normalizing the emergence of alternative Jewish identities resisting both nationalism and systemically-imposed narratives.

Loneliness, grief, and fleeting human connection emerge as unstable, shifting states rather than fixed sentiments. Through process-intensive labour, and the use of materials that carry residue and vulnerability, Adam reflects on the precarity of diasporic life. The subsequent transformation and interactions of these materials offer hope, persistence, and empathy as strategies for imagining sustainable, thriving futures for marginalized communities.