Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Aperture

    Aperture Beat

    Jun 05, 2018 2 minutes

    The Way We Live Now

    was the title of Farah Al Qasimi’s breakout solo show in the fall of 2017 at New York’s Helena Anrather gallery. But Qasimi’s own career seems to be all about “good news” lately. Since participating in the 2015 Aperture Summer Open, Qasimi has been commissioned for assignments by major magazines—and her work was featured in’s “On Feminism” issue (Winter 2016). Qasimi is known for her opulent but incisive color photographs that explore gender and society in her native Abu Dhabi and the United States. She made one recent photograph on a road trip to Miami. There, in a public library, she happened upon a bright-blue hardback volume of , precariously suspended like a readymade artwork—or a metaphor for America’s standing in the world.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Aperture

    Aperture3 min read
    Searching for Cayenne
    Like the writers Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant before her, Cédrine Scheidig is, to borrow the words of Glissant’s American translator, a distinguished theorist of “Caribbean self-formation.” Born in 1994 in the Seine-Saint-Denis su
    Aperture10 min read
    Jonathas de Andrade The Spark
    A cool breeze blows in from the wide-open windows on both sides of the artist Jonathas de Andrade’s modernist flat in Recife, a city in the northeast of Brazil. It’s June, the end of autumn in this part of the world, but it feels more like the peak o
    Aperture4 min readGender Studies
    Viewfinder
    It is 1994 in Tokyo and Mariko Mori is angry. She has just come out of a business meeting, and is appalled to find that intelligent women, with degrees from leading universities, are being made to serve tea while working at the office. She has recent

    Related Books & Audiobooks