Built Elsewhere
Artist Statement Built Elsewhereby Rim Albahrani I keep returning to the shape of a house, not to recreate one I have known but to understand why it stays with me. These forms are not about architecture. They are about structure – how memory holds space, and how identity settles or shifts through form. The shape […]
Customize
Overview Customize Mapping the Diaspora Art around your neck, shaped from Qatar’s map, a reflection on home, migration, and belonging. As someone rooted in the field of art history, it was important for me to begin by honoring the origins of jewelry. From prehistoric adornments made of shells, feathers, and bones to the gold and […]
Elusive Dreams of Belonging
Overview Elusive Dreams of Belonging If belonging is a place, it is set within a dream, interrupted yet repeated as escaped fragments of my subconscious mind. I am fascinated by the interplay between place and identity and how it shapes our sense of self. In my exhibition, Elusive Dreams of Belonging, I explore this tension […]
Urban Perspectives
Overview Rim Albahrani (b. 1995) is a Swedish-Iraqi artist born in Amman, Jordan, and is currently based in New York. From the early stages of her life, she was set on a vagabond path. Having lived with her family in Yemen, Sweden, Qatar, and The United Kingdom, she was exposed to different cultures that shaped […]