FARAH DAILAMI

Artist

Dailami is an artist from Manchester and Bahrain, recently graduated from the University of Leeds, in BA Fine Art with Museum and Gallery studies. 
Ultimately, herartisticpractise is auto-ethnographical, in that personal and anecdotal experiences are collected through filming, which are collated to translate an autobiographical narrative to a wider cultural perspective. Her video works explore dual nationality and the concept of a split identity that can originate from this. By conducting conversations with both Bahraini and British sides of her family, the cultural differences and similarities are show and manipulated. This work will relate to those viewers of dual heritage in terms of familiarity and resonance with certain cultural signifiers. In contrast, viewers who are not, can hopefully still resonate with the ideas of internal turmoil and confusion around identity. As well as this personal draw to a culturally explorative practise as a means of self-reflection, it also can have wider connotations. In this contemporary chaotic climate of racial tension and rising islamophobia, Dailami believes that work like this is essential in showing how despite societal polarities, respect and acceptance can still be reciprocated between cultures.