ARTIST

Marya-Al-Qassimi

MARYA AL QASSIMI

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

ARTIST STATEMENT

IN SPACE THEY SWIM UAE painting
250×183 cm
Property of the artist Curator Toomas Altnurme

The Automatic technique became a revelation to me as I noticed the markings of my inner mind on canvas and paper.
I began to wonder if the viewer could effectively psychoanalyze the works themselves and effectively “read my mind”.

It’s a possibility but as I began exhibiting my works I noticed that something else was happening. To a lot of the viewers, they began seeing different interpretations of what I have made of my work.
An example of this is when you nd characters in clouds. I take advantage of this phenomena with the hope that my artworks, which are a manifestation of my unconscious, can function as a mirror to the viewers’ unconscious.

Maybe my artworks can serve the viewer to understand how their own mind works, how it drifts, and what it chooses to see.
My artwork changes as the viewers’ focus perspective changes and therefore can behave as a mirror to the viewer’s inner mind and imagination. It’s an attempt to link people to the artwork, in a way to see themselves, through the use of my subconscious into your subconscious.

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1993, Marya grew up in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, studied Fine Arts and became a Fellow at the Cultural excellency program by ADMAF.
Marya specializes in Oil paintings and mixed medium drawings using the technique of Automatism and it’s purpose is to reveal the inner working of the subconscious mind.

Marya is currently working at the art spaces in Emirates Fine Arts society with her fellow artist and friend Abdulrahman Almaaini, continuing the research of the unconscious mind through art.

WORKS