Raya Shaban is an architect and film-maker who received her degree from the Architectural Association in London. Her practice engages questions of memory, storytelling, and the afterlife of spaces, working between film and material processes.

Through the camera, she documents what has been built and lived in, demonstrating how space becomes inseparable from memory and inhabitation. Her films attend to the emotional and sensory qualities of architecture, often focusing on intimate domestic settings. Among her works is a series of domestic portraits, capturing architects within their own homes.

In parallel, her ceramic practice approaches clay as a surface that records gesture, repetition, and imperfection. Working primarily with tiles, the work often extends into functional surfaces, dissolving the boundary between object and architecture, past and present.