An interview with Photographer Farah Al Qasimi
APOLLO MAGAZINE
By Diane Smyth
Arrival is a worthy addition to Photoworks Festival 2020, which runs from 24 September–25 October in Brighton, UK, online on the Photoworks website, and as a ‘festival in a box’. Al Qasimi, who was born in 1991 in Abu Dhabi, resists the mantle of educator, but she agrees that showing Arrival in Britain might make audiences think. ‘Al Qasimi says her work isn’t about the UAE per se but rather ‘about many different things that converge in this one specific site’. She is half Lebanese, half Emirati, and educated in the United States (she has a BA from Yale and an MFA from Yale School of Art); her photographs and films share a wider concern with invisible rules we live by, and their absurd, contingent nature. [More]
 |
| S Eating Watermelon (2015) from the series Arrival, Farah Al Qasimi. Courtesy the artist and The Third Line, Dubai; © Farah Al Qasimi |
