I’ve been practicing in our context (the UAE) for the past 3-4 years now. SWALIF has put on 4 exhibitions, released 2 publications (with 2 more on the way), participated in art fairs across the region and has conducted heavy public programming across the region. Currently, we are expanding into cultural consultancy and giving our expertise within this field. Additionally, we are opening a space in Abu Dhabi soon alongside another grassroots organization, focusing on art and urban research.

I’d love to expand our cultural consultancy arm and thats I hope this membership can support us with. Both the resources we’d need in terms of finding reliable people we can hire for projects as well as the network necessary to find projects we can pitch for. Additionally, I love meeting people and working with others. I believe we should all Make Friends not Art, and this sort of a community would definitely fill this void. I also have an art collection of my own that I would like to start archiving and sharing with others so that it can be activated.

I’m an independent curator, researcher, and writer. I spend a lot of my time exploring other people’s practices and studio space, trying to create narratives and linkages between them, their works, and our communities. I also enjoy exploring socio-economic and cultural subject matters, critiquing and abstracting them.