AMINAH IBRAHIM
Aminah Ibrahim is Black American/Kuwaiti/Indonesian artist, arts administrator, and emerging archivist interested in the preservation and ephemeral integrity of performance art. They explore the body as spiritual instrument through somatic movement, Austronesian cultures, and the blues. Inspired by the barzakh, described in the Qur'an as the barrier between sweet and salty water, mortal realm and spirit world, improvisation and meditative repetition are used to explore movement. Performances are rituals of offering, an embodied contemplation towards freedom and abstraction to build portals for new mythologies, with custom garb and sound scores annotating this body language. Exploring the geographies of identity, other works are developed into video artworks and multimedia installations investigating the struggle between an exposed surveillance and an abstracted self-censorship. Developing sculptural works, they incorporate natural materials, found objects, clothing, chainmail, embroidery, and text.
Ibrahim has shown work at Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, DUPLEX, Abrons Art Center, JACK, Magenta Plains, and Wellcome Collection, London. They have received an MA in Sound Art from London College of Communication, a Postgraduate Diploma in Music Production and Recording from University of Stavanger, Norway, and BS in TV, Radio, Film and Anthropology from Syracuse University.
Aminah Ibrahim
TOP IMAGE BY IKI NAGAWA
LEFT BY SARAH IBRAHIM
RIGHT BY JOSÉ ZELAYA