Farah Shafie

By reflecting on my internal dichotomies, I find that duality is ultimately inevitable within my practice. I start my creative process by decontextualising my ideas and translating them within my own realm of visual expression, to essentially create a contemporary understanding between what I believe and what you see.

I've always been fascinated with everything human, and I find that that's what synthesises my work together in terms of form. Visually expressing the human experience in all it's manifestations, all instilled within a cross-cultural context and the contemporary contrasts that come along with it. Line also plays a dominant role in unifying my practice in terms of composition, defining my subjects and conveying a controlled yet impassioned end result.

My work invites viewers to contemplate as well as savour in the aesthetic. Most of my projects consist of several works that function as a collective to serve a specific concept or theme, such as "The Motherhood Series" and "Melodies from Arabia." I currently use acrylics within my body of work, however, my goal is to achieve an interdisciplinary nature throughout my career, and in that explore the many different arenas, styles and mediums that would contribute to...

BA Graphic Design, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.