2021 Exhibition
2. General Behavior
Artist Information
General Behavior is the title of a set of children’s Islamic morality stickers that appear in Farah Al Qasimi’s seven-minute Bidoun video commission by the same name. It’s also a punning characterization of the contents of the video — snatches of life drawn from the artist’s archive that are held together by Al Qasimi’s editing and, occasionally, her own voice. As viewers we’re privy to errant sheep, Gulfie YouTube eclectica, road scenes, family lore, toys and games, the artist’s famous love for Jell-O, as well as her face superimposed on a twirling shawarma stick — among other things. These scraps, sensuous, humorous, and beguiling, offer up a Proustian sound and smell and sight bath.
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Farah Al Qasimi
Farah Al Qasimi (b.1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; lives and works in Brooklyn and Dubai) works in photography, video, and performance. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Public Art Fund, New York; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco; the CCS Bard Galleries at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Helena Anrather, New York; The Third Line, Dubai; The List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and the Houston Center for Photography, Houston. Al Qasimi received her MFA from the Yale School of Art. She has participated in residencies at the Delfina Foundation, London; the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; and is a recipient of the New York NADA Artadia Prize, the Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, and this year's Capricious Photo Award. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, New York. She has forthcoming solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and the Esker Foundation in Calgary in 2021 and 2022 respectively.