Alia Ali

Alia Ali (Austria, 1985) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist and visual storyteller. Her work reflects on the politics and poetics of contested notions surrounding the topics of identity, physical borders, spaces of confinement, and multi-racial identities. Her images perpetuate their existence into fabricated realities of physical installation blurring the lines even more between what we claim to be objective and subjective, illusion and reality, truth and interpretation.

Alia is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic (UWCAC) and holds a BA in Studio Art and Middle Eastern Studies from Wellesley College. Her studio is based in New Orleans and Marrakech. Alia is currently carrying out a global project called the People of Pattern.

 

Liberty, Cast No Evil Series
by Alia Ali
107 cm x 72 cm
Hahnemulle Photo Rag 310gr
Textile covered frame
Marrakech, Morocco. 2015