Sami‘s paintings often incorporate architectural and historical references, while maintaining an affinity for the templates of formalist painting. His limited colour palette supports his drawing-based process, making visible an effort towards achieving pictorial and formal values. Sami‘s paintings demonstrate a nuanced blend of stylistic elements, as he navigates the space between expression, figuration and semi-abstraction. He often incorporates architectural and historical references into his work, such as abandoned buildings from the recent past, stripped of their context and historical specificity, resulting in anonymous and depoliticized homogeneous spaces. His use of muted, earthy tones creates a sense of timelessness and universality, while his brushwork and mark-making imbue the works with a sense of immediacy and urgency. His practice explores the power of memory and its potential to resurge or transfigure itself into new conglomerations and physical entities, and is fuelled by an interest in the collective traumas caused by war, displacement and totalitarian regimes, abiding by a certain strain of thought within European post-war painting.