FARAH AL QASIMI, ‘Star Machine’
STAR MACHINE
Size: 23 x 30.5 cm
Pages: 76
Published by Mousse, 2023
An overview of photo and video works by Farah Al Qasimi between 2017 and 2021, with which the artist investigates how spaces and subjectivities inflect and influence each other.
Titled after Farah Al Qasimi's photograph Star Machine (2021)—a self-portrait in which the artist uses the star machine to transcend the monotony of her surroundings after two weeks of quarantine—this publication accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation and presents a selection of images from across existing and new bodies of work, wrapping them in found images from Alibaba merchants, that speak to our shared aspirations for transcendence beyond our daily lives. Understanding the camera as a relational tool, Al Qasimi's hyper-colourised and richly textured photographs and films focus our attention on how we see, feel, and initiate contact with people, places, or ways of being within today's world.