Artist Talk by Alia Farid

Alia Farid is a visual artist living and working in Kuwait and Puerto Rico. Her work is centred around everyday objects and local traditions, tracing the often marginalised histories they reveal. In installations which draw on archival materials, photographs and interviews, the artist excavates the obscure, giving it a political significance and creating a connection to our shared lived history.

Alia Farid says: 'The projects I’m going to share are not in chronological order because my work is, I think, better understood when looked at as constellations. My work is not medium specific, I make art to help me think through questions. And those questions often send me in different directions and on different material explorations.'