TAHREEM
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About
Mawra Tahreem is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working across traditional and experimental animation, installation, drawing, and painting. She earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and also holds an MPHIL in Cultural Studies and a BFA in Textile Design. Her research-based practice explores displacement, impermanence, liminality, silencing, and the temporal and spatial dimensions of experience. Her work begins in a space of contradiction, between visibility and absence, between making and erasure, and between human and inhuman.
She worked as a Research Assistant at the RISD Museum for two years on the South Asian Research Project, where she analyzed, documented, and cataloged textiles from South Asia. She serves as an Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Illustration. Moreover, she taught a self-designed studio course, “Material Culture and Narratives,” at RISD and encouraged students to unravel the stories of everyday objects through hands-on experience. Tahreem has participated in various community-engaged projects, including visual ethnography in the field after receiving the RISD Graduate Commons Grant and a collaborative effort with the World Monuments Fund to preserve living heritage in Pakistan.
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