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Alia Ali
Alia Ali (1985) is a Yemen-Bosnian-US multimedia artist whose work explores cultural binaries and confronts conflicted notions surrounding gender, citizenship. colonization diaspora, migration and Yemeni FuturismWorking within a multitude of mediums, including language, photography, sculpture, video, and installation, Alia’s work addresses the politicization of the body, histories of colonization, imperialism, sexism, and racism through projects that take pattern as their primary motif.
Textile, in particular, has been a constant in the artist's practice. Her work broadens into immersive installations utilizing light and pattern to move past language and offer an expansive, experiential understanding of self, culture, and nation.
Alia’s practice expands into discourses of Yemeni Futurism where she offers counter-narratives to appropriation, violence and disregard. Her research calls upon oral histories to reframe nostalgic pasts and to confront dystopian realities of the present in order to carve out spaces for radically imagined futures. Provided by Wikipedia