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To his left stands a patterned tapestry screen, and at the edge of the photograph a woman in a gorgeous purple-pink garment is just about visible, her hair shining and her hand outstretched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The photo, called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Living Room Vape<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2016), offers a good introduction to the ideas governing Al Qasimi\u2019s work. A photographer from Abu Dhabi, the UAE\u2019s capital, Al Qasimi\u2019s images are extravagantly detailed, elaborate and layered. To someone unfamiliar with the UAE\u2019s interiors and fashion trends, her photographs, such as this one, could appear strangely bright and saturated. But to the Yale-educated photographer, this is simply \u201cwhat the Emirates look like \u2013 I\u2019m not exaggerating, it is truly a place of magnificent colour\u201d. These details aren\u2019t just for show. \u201cI want to make photographs that people will want to spend time with,\u201d explains Al Qasimi over Skype, about her preference to shoot interiors. \u201cI always think that you have a \u2018one punchline joke\u2019 or you have hundreds of little jokes that reveal themselves over time, so I try and stay away from the \u2018one-note\u2019 easy \u2018knock-knock\u2019 jokes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80022,"id":80022,"title":"Farah Al Qasimi_After Dinner_ 2018_inkjet print_102 x 74 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Right: Dyed Pastel Birds (30 AED each), 2019. Courtesy of The Third Line, Dubai."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al Qasimi\u2019s photographs could never be described as \u2018easy\u2019 or \u2018one-note\u2019. The now New York based image maker and educator (she has taught at the Pratt Institute, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and has also tutored at the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rhode Island School of Design and NYU) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently made waves at Art Basel back in June. Her Dubai gallery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethirdline.com\/\">The Third Line<\/a>, dedicated an entire booth to her work, with new, research-based photographs such as<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dyed Pastel Birds<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (30 AED each) (2019). As is the case with many of her images, there is more to this picture of fantastic pastel chicks than initially meets the eye. According to the artist, who is currently exhibitioning at MIT list visual arts Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (as well as a concurrent show at The Third Line\u2014her third solo show at the gallery), dyed birds like these were a popular gift in the UAE in the Nineties; parents would buy them for their children, before there were regulations for the treatment of animals. \u201cObviously it\u2019s a cute photograph but it\u2019s actually very morbid because these chicks are living in a trap (they would usually die on account of the chemicals). They\u2019re kind of forced to become these aesthetic objects as opposed to living things,\u201d she laments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al Qasimi\u2019s sense of curiosity fuels her approach to photography. Throughout our conversation, the term comes up a lot \u2013 in fact, curiosity is what led her towards photography in the first place. Growing up in Abu Dhabi, Al Qasimi learned piano and went on to study music at Yale University. During her undergraduate degree, she decided to take some photography classes \u201cout of curiosity\u201d and as an alternative to her dense, theory-led major, then found that she really enjoyed the solitude of working in the darkroom. For Al Qasimi, who went on to earn an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art in 2017, her projects (which also include video and performance art) blossom from an intuitive sense of what is interesting. \u201cMy work is obviously very aesthetically driven so often it starts with an aesthetic curiosity about a place,\u201d she says.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80026,"id":80026,"title":"Farah Al Qasimi_It's Not Easy Being Seen 7_2016_Archival inkjet print_120 x 96 cm_Edition of 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Edition of 5, framed. Courtesy of The Third Line, Dubai."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though Al Qasimi has been living in the United States on and off for the past five years, her native\u00a0 UAE has been a constant in her work, one which she initially regarded with unease. \u201cAt first, I felt a bit guilty or a little bit afraid of being typecast as somebody who only creates work about where they\u2019re from,\u201d she admits. \u201cBut now that I think about it, the [UAE] is a really fascinating case study for questions of national identity and progress. I am baffled by how it transforms at such a rapid pace and what that means for the people who live here and some of the problems that presents. So, even though the work is about the Emirates, the images bring up questions about nationhood or belonging that can be widely understood.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al Qasimi considers the perception of the UAE abroad, especially in America, to still be somewhat skewed. \u201c[There\u2019s] a lot of misinformation. \u201cIt\u2019s a place that\u2019s shrouded in mystery, with vague associations of excess and luxury.\u201d When I ask her if she is interested in challenging those stereotypes in her work, she rejects the simplicity of that idea. \u201cI try not to think about that. If people have stereotypes to begin with, it probably means that they\u2019re not that curious. It is a trap to try and respond to people\u2019s stereotypes \u2013 it only validates the misinformation. As an artist, if you\u2019re constantly trying to be educational in your work it removes some of the raw curiosity. I try not to tailor my work to an audience that might not understand it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":80070,"id":80070,"title":"Farah Al Qasimi_A's Reflection_2019_Archival inkjet print_101.6 x 74 cm","filename":"Farah-Al-Qasimi_As-Reflection_2019_Archival-inkjet-print_101.6-x-74-cm.jpg","filesize":510001,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Farah-Al-Qasimi_As-Reflection_2019_Archival-inkjet-print_101.6-x-74-cm.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/farah-al-qasimi\/farah-al-qasimi_as-reflection_2019_archival-inkjet-print_101-6-x-74-cm\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"farah-al-qasimi_as-reflection_2019_archival-inkjet-print_101-6-x-74-cm","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":80019,"date":"2019-09-24 14:43:29","modified":"2019-09-24 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A Reflection, 2019. Right: Perfume (Men, Women). "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this sense, Al Qasimi does not cater to the expectations of some abstract international viewership. One aspect of this is visibility, of \u2018being seen\u2019 \u2013 a Western concept that is still finding its footing in the UAE and its neighbours. \u201cI come from a place that has a very particular relationship to photography and visibility. For example, we don\u2019t really have a publicised archive of family photographs or personal photographs. Photography is still a fairly new tradition there,\u201d she reflects. While this is changing with the popularity of smartphones and Instagram, Al Qasimi maintains that it\u2019s still generally considered inappropriate to take people\u2019s photos without their permission in the UAE, and that many people would prefer to remain anonymous, even when they have consented to having their picture taken.\u201cYoung women, for example, if they want to post a picture of themselves and their friends, they might blur out their faces, or they might put a picture of a kitten in front of each person\u2019s face as a method of keeping anonymous,\u201d she explains. \u201cI\u2019m interested in how you can make a portrait of somebody without showing their face; that is in line with the visual traditions of the region and also respecting people\u2019s anonymity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Al Qasimi\u2019s gallery describes her work as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">examining \u201cpostcolonial structures of power, gender and taste in the Gulf Arab states\u201d. Until 1971, the UAE was a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">British protectorate in an area with a<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">long history of British rule. As a result, the region<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assumed certain tastes and traditions due to its<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">colonial past. Al Qasimi identifies <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Living Room<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vape<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a photograph that demonstrates these<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Western tastes. \u201cThe decor of the living room is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">very typical of an Emirati home. He\u2019s sitting on<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a baroque-style couch, he\u2019s got a gold-trimmed<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">painting of what looks like a medieval European<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">landscape, porcelain, and a Persian rug. It has a<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">distinctly Gulf flavour, but if you actually think<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about where the drive to seek out furniture like<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this for a parlour comes from, that is one example<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of Western influence that\u2019s been fully absorbed<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">into [Gulf] ideas of tastefulness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","text":"\"If people have stereotypes to begin with, it probably means that they\u2019re not that curious.\"","source":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Towards the end of our conversation, I ask Al Qasimi whether anything besides curiosity fuels her work. \u201cI think anger, also, and loneliness,\u201d she confirms. While her loneliness is on account of living away from home, her anger is a combination of frustration at seeing the culture and traditions of her homeland \u201cbulldozed to make way for shopping malls and hotels\u201d, as well as outdated attitudes toward women. \u201cI think that there\u2019s an anger about how, in the Emirates, education is still segregated in government schools &#8230; A lot of the young people growing up don\u2019t know how to regard women as human beings. There\u2019s a huge catcalling problem, and [men] can be really disrespectful towards women in public.\u201d Al Qasimi is cautious and measured as she makes this point, qualifying her statement by noting, \u201cIt\u2019s generally no better in the US, and I don\u2019t say these things to say that the Middle East is backwards, because it\u2019s really not, but\u2026 I just had a feeling that I was a secondary citizen because of my gender, and that I was regarded as someone who could never really talk back. That anger fuelled a lot of my drive to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">work and to understand how the place operates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><em>This article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SLEEK 63, out now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Farah Al Qasimi&#8217;s latest exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethirdline.com\/\">Arrival<\/a> is on display at The Third Line, Dubai through to 23 November.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Farah Al Qasimi\u2019s vivid photographs offer a magnificent insight into life in the UAE Farah Al Qasimi\u2019s vivid photographs offer a magnificent insight into life in the UAE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/farah-al-qasimi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farah Al Qasimi\u2019s vivid photographs offer a magnificent insight into life in the UAE Farah Al Qasimi\u2019s vivid photographs offer a magnificent insight into life in the UAE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/farah-al-qasimi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-24T15:18:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-09-25T08:28:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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