Sophia Al-Maria
1983–
Introduction
Sophia Al Maria (Arabic: صافية المرية; born 1983) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale, the New Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Venice Biennale and the Tate Britain in London. Her writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Five Dials, Triple Canopy, and she is a contributing editor at Bidoun.
She has coined and developed the concept of 'Gulf Futurism', which is intended to capture the amalgamation of Western cultural influences and rapid modernization in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
Her memoir The Girl Who Fell To Earth was published by Harper Perennial on November 27, 2012.
Wikidata identifier
Q7562843
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