Built elsewhere

Built elsewhere

2025

Rim Albahrani

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Sculptor, Printmaker

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Bronze, 2024

The concept of the exhibition is about how our identity is constantly adjusting and shifting depending on where we are in life and which location we’re in. I felt that the shape of the house is a recurring symbol of home, the main concept I started from and continue to work on. I really want to understand what home means emotionally and connect on a deeper level than the socially constructed idea of home. Home doesn’t always mean your people or your family or a specific location. What does it mean to someone who has lived far away, who has been forced or chosen to leave their country?

The Art of BELONGING

Through sculpture and research, artist Rim Albahrani explores the emotional meaning of home, especially for those living across cultures and borders. Her work reflects on the themes of identity, memory, and belonging, inviting viewers to reconsider what it truly means to “arrive”.

I want people to feel that you can have memories and also dreams. When I created my sculptures and prints, I was creating an imaginative world, what home means to me. I want people to feel that there is a world for them too, that an ideal home can be defined in many ways. You can belong, and it doesn’t have to be one specific place.

Bronze - 28 x 20.5 x 6 cm - 2024

Silkscreen print - 50 x 50 cm - 2025

Bronze - 39 x 16 x 14 cm - 2023

From the opening night

Cultural Narratives and Artistic Expression

Through sculpture and research, artist Rim Albahrani explores the emotional meaning of home, especially for those living across cultures and borders. Her work reflects on the themes of identity, memory, and belonging, inviting viewers to reconsider what it truly means to “arrive”.

For my sculptures in this exhibition, I have deliberately made them asymmetrical. I wanted them to feel a sort of tension, that instability of an identity like mine and many others who have experienced similar movement across the world. Some of the pieces have bases, some of them don’t. That speaks to the idea of rootedness and dislocated roots. We all have some roots, but we’re also far away from them, constantly adjusting and shifting depending on where we are in life.

From the opening night

Bronze - 28 x 15 x 9 cm - 2024

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