Ahed Al Kathiri
About
Ahed Al Kathiri (b.2000) is an artist based in Dubai, UAE. Born and living away from her motherland, Yemen, she uses her personal experience to explore notions of belonging, place, and existence. During her time at the RCA, Ahed continued her interest in constructing imaginative notions of space and place to challenge the often nationalist, patriarchal, and territorial notions of belonging. Through an intimate, introspective practice, and working between textiles, writing, sound, and recently performance, she explores phonetics and translation to transcribe within her mother tongue, Arabic. Using her grandmother’s voice notes and recordings of traditional hymns, Ahed investigates ways of embodied breath, voice, and speech to explore the mouth as the place for longing, and through written scores, she invites others to imagine and start sonic conversations around topography and land.
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