Sophia Al Maria

Sophia Al Maria

BornNationalityBased In
1983Qatari/AmericanLondon
Biography

Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker living and working in London. Though her work spans many disciplines including drawing, film and screen-writing for TV, it is united by a preoccupation with the power of storytelling and myth, and in particular with imagining revisionist histories and alternative futures. With her friend and collaborator Fatima Al Qadiri, Al-Maria coined the term “Gulf Futurism” to describe the growing atomisation of individuals and the shifting ground of urban planning, aesthetics, and media, and their impact on everyday life in the post-oil Persian Gulf. Her cinematic artist’s videos are fuelled by the combination of critical rigour with an affective charge in their explorations of language, imperialism, and counter-histories – a deep investigation and dramatisation of the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental present. ...

Selected Artworks
Beast Mode 1
Sophia Al Maria
Beast Mode 1, 2020
47 x 36.5 x 3.7cm
Major Motions
& Oranges
Sophia Al Maria
& Oranges, 2021
47.5 x 32.5 x 3.5cm
Safi's Kid
Sophia Al Maria
Safi's Kid, 2021
47.5 x 68.2 x 3.5cm
Untitled (BCE)
Sophia Al Maria
Untitled (BCE), 2018
40 x 30cm
taraxos
Sophia Al Maria
taraxos, 2021
650 x 200 x 200cm
The Camera, A Mirror, A Sniper, A Femme (Beast Type Song Scripts)
Sophia Al Maria
The Camera, A Mirror, A Sniper, A Femme (Beast Type Song Scripts), 2020
43 x 32.5 x 2cm
BEAST TYPE SONG
Rape Gaze
Sophia Al Maria
Rape Gaze, 2014
198 x 320 x 4cm
Mirror Cookie
White Man's Bible (Revenge Porn)
Sophia Al Maria
White Man's Bible (Revenge Porn), 2018
38.1 x 21.9 x 29.8cm
Cent
Sunset Complexion
Sophia Al Maria
Sunset Complexion, 2017
24 x 42cm
Optics
Contouring
Sophia Al Maria
Contouring, 2017
24 x 42cm
Beauty Industrial Complex
Sophia Al Maria
Beauty Industrial Complex, 2017
24 x 42cm
Battle
Peptides
& Goats
Sophia Al Maria
& Goats, 2021
47.5 x 32.5 x 3.5cm
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