Flower Lenticular (Language and Prayer Stickers) is a new photographic edition by artist Farah Al Qasimi. The image shows a re-worked cover of a lenticular notebook, the kind used by the artist in her youth, covered with educational stickers showing English-Arabic translation and prayer instruction. In this recreation, the collaged elements suggest a suspended reality in which Al Qasimi’s childhood lives between two cultures. This Fundraising Edition is produced on occasion of Printed Matter’s participation in Frieze New York 2020 (via Frieze Viewing Room).
Signed and Numbered. Digital c-print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Pearl paper.
Farah Al Qasimi is an artist working in photography, video and performance. Al Qasimi studied photography and music at Yale University in 2012 and received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2017.
Selected exhibitions include LIST Projects: Farah Al Qasimi at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2019), Helena Anrather, New York (2017), The Third Line, Dubai (2016). Shewas recently awarded the New York NADA Artadia Prize and the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship (2018). Al Qasimi’s work is housed in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE; and Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE.
