Artist

Raiya Al Rawahi

Raiya Al Rawahi. Courtesy of the National Pavilion of the Sultanate of Oman.
Raiya Al Rawahi. Courtesy of the National Pavilion of the Sultanate of Oman.

One of the leaders of the current generation of Omani artists was self-taught sound installation artist Raiya Al Rawahi. Her influences come from a multitude of sources, ranging from philosophy to medicine, and her 2015 sound installation was awarded first prize for the inaugural Stal Gallery Young Emerging Artist Prize. Rawahi described her practice as “Sounds and objects used to represent a journey from indoctrination to scepticism to enlightenment”. Raiya Al Rawahi’s work mainly consists of documenting and repositioning daily objects accompanied by her visceral soundtracks. Her particular interest lies in the discrepancies we live with, the tensions and the peaceful harmonies of our daily existence. A leading curator and artist of the young generation of Omani artists, Rawahi tragically passed away in 2018.

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