Ifrah

The Ephemerality Saga XX/XX/2026. Art/Illustration By @h.alelele @ifrah.studio

WIP playing around with materials, layering and textures using graphite, latex, foil, snakeskin and wire mesh thinking all things form, desire, disgust and skins

studio visit @ifrah.studio in digbeth / @ortgallery artist in residence sis / april 2026 / latex & snakeskin 🌞 it was such a privilege making time to visit the world of my fellow @ortgallery artist-in-residence, ifrah sagheer. ✍️ i played with latex for the first time, making an udder + cow combo, and generously mined ifrah’s mind for art thoughts and ideas. a deep curiosity for the material world, textures and biological shapes guided our chatting and our playtime. ✨ we talked future plans, drawing, craftsmanship and working with our hands / expanding skills / curation and experimentations / music links / thank you for such a fun insightful start to the saturday ifrah! 🙏🏼 very much look forward to meeting at my studio coming up. . . . #abigailvillarroel #ifrahsagheer #ortgallery #artistinresidence #birmingham

I had so much fun decorating the space for the @dunya.wav ‘s International Women’s Day Event @beneculture ❣️ Thank you to @rxveena_ for creating such an amazing event, filled with yummy food and so many sweet and talented people! 🌟🌀💐

Women Make the DUNYA Go Round Today @dunya.wav x @bene.culture 🌐 Friday 6 March ~ 6–9pm ~ Bene Culture, Digbeth 📍 Free entry & refreshments 🤗 Round 2 at Bene, this time celebrating International Women’s Day 💜 music, words and art in brum, to share what we want to see change in 2026 and beyond, while taking up space doing it. This year’s IWD theme is Give to Gain, so we’re using the room to share platforms, opportunities and energy with the girls powering and shaping Birmingham’s creative scene ✨ The evening starts with open decks available by sign up (link in bio) before DJ sets from the babes @essie_mixes Moho resident and recently spotted at BCFC, Essie’s sets always have me bouncing around, no matter which genre she’s taking us through 🕺🏽 @mishaproductions Her Sigil residency spins heads every month 😵‍💫 whether she’s cutting blends herself or curating the sound through her guests any lineup you see either of these two at, you better cop first release tickets‼️we’re all also @saffronmusic @mixnights alumni, platforms that continue to support women, non-binary and trans DJs & producers Spoken word: @oolivvee / @olive.poet part of the University of Birmingham’s 2025 Unislam team and @rupinderkw sharing pieces from her latest collection Tigress With Wings 📓 Art in the space from @ifrah.studio bringing a selection of her works, displayed through the Bene windows and around the room 🖼️ @sancha_sancha will be catching shots for anyone who wants to update their library (me, I need to) 📸 Henna in the space, with proceeds going to @cystersgroup , a Birmingham charity supporting menstrual, maternal, menopausal and mental health for marginalised communities 🫂 There’s also a form in my bio and story to join the DUNYA directory of creatives in Birmingham, so it’s easier for us to be found and find each other, collaborate, get booked and TAKE MORE SPACE 💫💫💫 There are so many more amazing IWD events happening across the city this weekend and I love to see it. Shout-out @beneculture @bene.radio and the lads each and everytime. The community speaks for itself. 🫡

Meet @ifrah.studio our second and final Deliberation Artist in Residence of 2026 ✨ Ifrah’s practice and material interrogations of producing abject objects relies upon sensorial textures and appearances in order to evoke feelings of uncomfortableness, yet familiarity within the viewer. They create post-humanist forms which have sensorial qualities and use materials like flock to represent hair, or latex which acts as skin or silicone as flesh. By utilising skin and flesh like materials they are able to mimetically reproduce aspects of the human body, which helps to elicit a familiarity with the viewer’s body and the sculptural bodies. By establishing a bodily similarity with the viewer and the sculpture, desires of interaction within the viewer are awoken – eliciting a wanting to touch or to physically interact with the sculptures.

‘pores & all’ (84.6 x 123.7 x 5.3cm) [silicone, latex, flock] The work explores how skins and bodies can be reimagined into sensorial forms that can interact and inspire feelings of desire yet uncomfortability within the viewer. By mimicking flesh like forms the work aims to establish a familiarity with the body yet moves further into becoming its own bodily form. presented @createspacebrum being human exhibition on 15/11/2025 & @agempresents and @birminghammind charity event hosted by @sugarb0n on 29/11/2025

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the overlap [ @h.alelele , 14:00 , 22/10/24 ]

made a little film as a part of a project in 2023 focusing on the community within the BA Fine art programme at @birmingham_school_of_art a year out of traditional education has provided clarity on my own practice, community and the archive of it all in memory of all that is new and the context in which we currently exist i thought i’d share ! i’m also unsure if anyone has even actually seen this… thank u @gugan.gill for working on this with me, it’s as much mine as urs ! through community we can always achieve liberation thank you to all of those that i share these fond memories with at SOA (if i forgot to tag u pls lmk ! ) with love, ifrah [ 22/10/2024, 2:16 am - tired as fuck ]

a love letter to the relentless power of desire that becomes our escape [ @h.alelele , 21/10/24, 18:50]

been having lots of thoughts on 🪱 forms recently looking back at some WIPS 🌟 contemplating processez, abjection nd hybridised formzzz 🚨 i’ll lyk my conclusions soon ✨