Farah Rahman’s artistic research practice is similar to that of an ethnobotanist who analyzes peoples and cultures through field research. She draws inspiration from her own family history in Suriname and India. She aims to use various media techniques as research tools. She creates multi-sensory works, where long-forgotten memories about the political and/or spiritual relationship between people, plants, nature, and culture play a significant role.
Her work is characterized by the use of medicinal plants, scent compositions, and various cultural heritages. By deconstructing these materials, she investigates their structures and meanings.
Rahman is a multidisciplinary Art Science artist and art educator. She has exhibited her work in places such as Stroom Den Haag, Zone2Source gallery Amsterdam, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Museon, Worm Rotterdam, Art Science @LUMC Kunstgallery, and has given/developed art educational workshops for organizations such as Filmhuis Den Haag, Into the Great Wide Open Festival, Boijmans van Beuningen, and Instruments Inventors Initiative. She earned her Bachelor’s in Audiovisual Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In 2022, she obtained her Master’s in Art Science from the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Rahman is a member of the Analog Film Workspace in WORM Rotterdam and Stroom Haagse Kunstenaars in The Hague.
Photo by Marjolein Vinkenoog
