Sophia Al Maria

Sophia Al Maria is an artist, writer and filmmaker living and working in London. She studied comparative literature at the American University in Cairo, and aural and visual cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. For the past few years, she has been carrying out research around the concept of Gulf Futurism. Her primary interests are around the isolation of individuals via technology and reactionary Islam, the corrosive elements of consumerism and industry, and the erasure of history and the blinding approach of a future no one is ready for. Sophia is the author of Sad Sack, Virgin With A Memory and The Girl Who Fell To Earth.

Her work has been exhibited in various institutions around the world, including Tate Britain, London, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan and Whitechapel Gallery, in 2019 ; Mercer Union, Images Festival, Toronto, in 2018 ; Biennale of Moving Images, Miami, CCS Bard Gallery, NY, Villa Empain Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Shanghai Project, La Casa Encendida, Madrid and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in 2017 ; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 2016.