Farah Al Qasimi: Letters for Occasions

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Farah Al Qasimi, "Anood in the Guest Bedroom," 2020

courtesy of the artist; Helena Anrather, New York; and the Third Line, Dubai.

Farah Al Qasimi: Letters for Occasions

Farah Al Qasimi’s photographs speak to the complexities of negotiating overlapping cultures and multiple contexts simultaneously. Her work considers the global circulation of popular culture and the process by which objects or images are coded with meaning. Lush and textural, Al Qasimi’s photographs possess a heightened quality that veers towards the uncanny. While her subject matter appears legible and familiar at first, her images transcend the realm of the ordinary and confuse the boundaries between perception and representation.

Letters for Occasions, a site-specific, photo-based installation, brings together new and recent photographs that layer multiple personal and familial narratives through images of private spaces and material ephemera. The installation interweaves the story of Al Qasimi’s maternal family’s migration from Lebanon to the United States with images taken in the United Arab Emirates, where her father is from, and where the artist was raised and continues to live part-time.

February 24th, 2022 at 6-7pm In-person: Curatorial Tour with Elizabeth Diggon

Join Curator Elizabeth Diggon for a tour of Esker Foundation’s current exhibitions, Farah Al Qasimi: Letters for Occasions, Michelle Bui: Naked Excess, and Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun.

Registration essential. Opens 11 February, 11am.

In-person with limited capacity.