IBI IBRAHIM

Dates of residency: January till February 2016
Born: 1987Nationality: Yemeni
Lives and works:  Sana’a, Yemen 
Selected shows:
2018 Executive (Dis)Order: Art, Displacement, & the Ban, Queens Museum, New York
2017  Departure / Arrival, The Lab Space, Darat Al Funun, Amman
2015  The taste of Addiction; Cups, Capsules, & Tale of Yemeni Coffee, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin
2015  Walls and Margins, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah

THE ARTIST
Ibi Ibrahim has been an artist-in-residence at GlogauAir in 2015, Berlin and Cite Internationale des Art in 2014, Paris. His work is part of the collection of Colorado College, Colorado. Ibrahim is the founder and director of Romooz Foundation; a Sana’a based initiative that aims to cultivate and support creative practices in Yemen with focus on visual art and literature. In 2019, Ibrahim established Arsheef; a Sana'a based contemporary art gallery working with both local artists and those in the diaspora. 

THE RESIDENCY
Guided by Fairuz’ melodies during his entire stay, Ibrahim set out to explore the intimate relationship between the iconic singer and her listeners, culminating in a video installation that reflects her unifying strength which transcends political and religious frictions.  A second installation brings together the tangible harshness cutting up the streets of Beirut, engaging in a vulnerable dialogue with the artists’ own emotional struggles.