In Farah Al Qasimi’s work, environments and characters intertwine, forming images with complex meanings, where staged and spontaneous elements blend together. Her photographs, videos, and performances are rooted in a visual language connected to the United Arab Emirates, forming narrative constellations that reveal a keen eye for the banal, exaggeration, culture and its relationships, as well as a language that echoes the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion.
For the 14th Mercosul Biennial, Al Qasimi created a large-scale panel featuring a collage of multiple images, a process that has become characteristic of her practice. In this piece, the artist uses the sun as the guiding thread of the composition, formally connecting it to orange-hued fruits while centering human figures who gaze outward beyond the frame—creating a composition that is both cohesive and enigmatic.
Charlene Cabral
Farah Al Qasimi (United Arab Emirates, 1991) is a visual artist who works in photography, video, music, and performance. Often working with large-scale images and a multiplicity of photographic prints and canvases, Farah is interested in the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion. Her work has been exhibited in renowned museums and art centers such as the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, CCS Bard Galleries at the Hessel Museum of Art in New York, The Third Line in Dubai, The List Visual Arts Center at MIT in Cambridge, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto. Her work is in important collections such as MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern, and MCA Chicago. She lives between New York, United States, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
