LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- For Paris+ par Art Basel 2022, François Ghebaly is presenting an excerpt from her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Showcasing Al Qasimi’s distinctive multidimensional display method, the booth will feature her video work Surge (2022) and a selection of her photographs installed atop a floor-to-ceiling vinyl backdrop.




For nearly a decade, Farah Al Qasimi has sharpened a multifaceted practice that illuminates the complexities of a globalized, hyperlinked culture. Rooted in photography but spanning performance, video, installation, and music, her work documents and conjures a world of disquieting visual metaphor. Al Qasimi packs her images with hypersaturated textiles, familiar commercial products, and landscapes so sublime they teeter between the real and the imagined. Beauty and tragedy, risk and allure, intimacy and distance—Al Qasimi skillfully captures these paradoxes through a distinctly lush visual language. Often layering her photographs and videos in compositions across exhibition walls, she visibilizes the power dynamics that produce contemporary consumer culture. Al Qasimi's vivid “spatial trickery” and multilayered approach draw attention to the myriad manifestations of global trade, image production, and unbounded desire.

Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) recently presented a retrospective exhibition at the Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi. In 2023, she will participate in the Gwangju Biennale and Sharjah Biennial, and will have solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and C/O, Berlin. Her recent commission with Public Art Fund, Back and Forth Disco, was on view at 100 bus shelters in New York City in 2019 and 2020. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; CCS Bard Galleries at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Helena Anrather, New York; The Third Line, Dubai; The List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge; Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and the Houston Center for Photography. She has participated in residencies at the Delfina Foundation, London and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. She is a recipient of the New York NADA Artadia Prize; Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship; and this year’s Capricious Photo Award. Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam. Al Qasimi received her MFA from the Yale School of Art. She lives and works in Brooklyn and Dubai.