Farah

Today - Prospect Park to Manhattan - NYC, bus riders, chihuahuas, aunties, siblings - all for Palestinian liberation ❤️

Homesickness, 2024 for @publicartabudhabi 🦪 I wanted to make a choir of singing pearls for the Corniche (the place where I first discovered public art), and one that reflected the luminous building materials of downtown Abu Dhabi. Each oyster is milled from aluminium and contains a speaker embedded in a pearl; each pearl emits separate tracks of a spatial composition. The main three-note theme is taken from the song “Tob, Tob Ya Bahar”, originally sung by the wives of pearl divers praying for their safe return. It was a dream to work on this with @helloacrush - and sorry for the windy audio….added a little Logic clip at the end for more musical context. Public art and new mediums are both scary things but I had so much support. Shoutout to the @publicartabudhabi team, esp Luz and Nikolai, Reem, the ACRUSH team, @jgutierrezhadid for helping a Logic girl with Ableton, @andrew_js whose feedback helped shape the music, the contractors, builders and engineers, and Manu, who is the festival attendant for my work. The location pin is on the PAAD website and is very close to an incredible drum piece by @lawrenceabuhamdan , ahlan wa sahlan Visual and Sound ID in comments

Snake on Horse, 2026, showing with @francoisghebaly at Frieze NY Booth D08. Also on view at @momaps1 as part of Greater New York Photo by Paul Salveson Baby Bunty c/o @a.y.alkindi

Time of Misfortune, 2026 A young girl screams so loudly, she brings a curse to her bloodline. Told through a child’s diary, the film features my own nursery schoolbooks (lovingly scanned by my mother), footage shot in Ras Al Khaimah, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi and in my studio, and drawing contributions from many young artists. I always love writing music for film, but this round was extra special as I got to work with Joe Namy’s wonderful sound design, which enriched every part of the process. Truly, truly grateful that I get to make weird things with other people. Team Director of Photography - Ibrahim Qasim (@ibrahimibinqasim ) Camera Assistant - Ahmed El Mahdy (@ellmahdy ) Sound Mixer - Kane Rodrigues Additional Sound - Farah Al Qasimi, Anood Al Obeidli, Aya Al Mubarak Sound Design - Joe Namy (@joe_namy ) Composer - Farah Al Qasimi Editor - Megan Heard (@megan_heard ) Sound Engineer - Jana Saleh (@usernamewiththatusername ) Production Assistance Ananya Malagi (@ananya.malagi ) Nevena Dzamonja Abdullah Al Kindi (@a.y.alkindi ) Actors Anood Al Obaidly (@anoodobeidli ) Layla Mohammed Trais Abdullah Al Hajri (@abdullaalhajri5 ) Shama Saeed Alameemi (@shama.png ) Omar Saeed Alameemi Hend Saeed Alameemi Sara bin Safwan (@sarasfwn_ ) Salem Al Suwaidi (@salem_alsuwaidi ) Putri Amalia (@putripuspaaa_ ) Abdullah Al Kindi Essa Sherani Balqis Hindash (@balqishindash ) Al Nadba performed by the Habsi tribe in Rams Showing in an installation as part of Washwasha, curated by @banakattan and assistant curator @talanassar2 @nationalpavilionuae

Greater New York is now open @momaps1 ✨ Showing new work from Dearborn, Texas, and the Gulf on the third floor. Major gratitude to Ruba Katrib, the curatorial team (Andrea, Jody, @cornelia.butler , @elenamariakg , @sacredboi , @krittenbach ), to Lilly and the production team and art handlers for putting up an incredible survey that I’m so honored to be included in. Very thankful for the additional production help from @tomweinrich , @loupedigital , @supremedigitalny , @francoisghebaly and @ndza and grateful to the people in these photographs (Marrim, Amaney, Fatima) for their trust 🙏🏽 Some of Ruba’s test from the catalogue: “In this series, Motor City merges with Arab life. This unrepresented population (Arabs are not on the US census), are carefully captured by Al Qasimi. For her works shown in Greater New York, Al Qasimi has continued her work in Dearborn, while also shooting in various locations across Texas, Kuwait, and the UAE. Connections between these disparate places—through geopolitical histories and economic interdependence, through labor, migration, oil, and the specter violence, all of which lingers behind the surface in Al Qasimi’s work. The images stitch together a cohesive sense of life and self-fashioning that unfolds across time and place, despite the geopolitical contexts outside of theframe.”

Details from Psychic Repair at @scadmoa until June! So fun to show some old and new things under the curatorial guidance of @b_rich___ who is a major baking magician and made these sugar cookies of works in the show 🥲 also can’t believe I got to be gallery neighbors with longtime hero Laurie Anderson and see her perform ~ Grateful to @ddotpalmer @bentollefson and the SCAD installers, techs, docents, attendants and entire team for being such fabulous hosts 💗

For today’s issue of Éditions Selects, a special Valentines Day edit from artist and photographer Farah Al Qasimi: ‘I’ve put together some love-themed offerings from a few of my favorite books (think of it as a box of assorted chocolates) I want to believe that love will drag us out of this colossal mess that we’re in — love for others, love for ourselves, love for humanity As we indulge in the symbolism of beauty and excess that surrounds this holiday, may we also strive for lives that alchemize love into compassion and hopelessness into action and rigor A suggested action for anyone in the US right now: Read about the work of Haven Watch [havenwatch.org] and donate to their cause’ In order of appearance: Farah Al Qasimi ‘Hello Future’ @capriciouspublishing @joel_meyerowitz ‘Wild Flowers’ @nangoldinstudio ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ Maia Ruth Lee ‘Baggage Bondage’ Paul Outerbridge Jr. ‘Photographs’ Imogen Cunningham ‘Mother’s Days’ Miss Piggy ‘Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life’ Subscribe free at the link in bio ❣️ @frequentlyaskedquestion @editions.mag @shop.editions

Psychic Repair opens at @scadmoa this weekend. Includes this earlier piece I wrote which was re-recorded with @andrewwhodrums in Marfa and music video re-edited by @maltdisney - Additional thanks to @ananya.malagi for helping me haunt the dollhouse 🎈 Curated by cookie queen @b_rich___

We are pleased to announce photographer and musician Farah Al Qasimi’s upcoming exhibition “Psychic Repair,” opening Friday, Jan. 30 at the SCAD Museum of Art! Through highly saturated photographs and music videos, Al Qasimi explores the unseen forces that lurk in the media and shape the way we behave and view the world. Al Qasimi’s solo exhibition will feature in-gallery works along with large-scale installations in the Jewel Box vitrines along the façade of #SCADMOA. “Psychic Repair” is organized by SCAD Museum of Art associate curator Brittany Richmond and presented as part of SCAD #deFINEART 2026. Farah Al Qasimi, “Leopard Print Blanket,” 2022, archival inkjet print, 33 x 50 in. Courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, New York

Desert Hyacinth is open @sanatorium_ 🙂‍↕️ named for my favorite salt water plant that erupts occasionally on the coast of my beloved Ras Al Khaimah ⛺️ Thank you @ulyas for your thoughtful curation - I love this booklet in which there is a fab & generous essay by @epikse and a Turkish-translated dance of a poem that @kamelya.omayma wrote in response to my work 2 years ago 💫 Installation photos by @zeynepfiratphotos 💗