Reem is a London- and Doha-based artist working with garment-based installation to examine material value, cultural symbolism, and transformation through oud and the abaya.

ASBAR / أصبر (2026)
A site-responsive installation staged within an abandoned Neo-Islamic villa in Al Wakrah, Qatar.

Developed within a domestic structure left incomplete and uninhabited, the work engages themes of endurance, suspension, and the instability of value across material, architecture, and garment.

Her practice operates across installation, garment, and spatial intervention.

Working with agarwood (oud), textiles, and scent, she constructs environments where value is embedded, extracted, and reconfigured. The abaya is approached not as clothing, but as a structural and symbolic form expanded, suspended, and repositioned within space.

Materials are treated as active: stitched on, embroidered, whole, fragmented, and circulated, reflecting on memory, labour, and transformation.

Value is materialised rather than represented seen as currency, residue, weapon, and artefact.

Featured works

Oud Abaya · Oud Casino · IV Drip · Trafficked

OUD ABAYA

 

The Oud Abaya, 2024

Oud on fabric

OUD CASINO

IV DRIP

TRAFFICKED

Independently conceived and produced across London and Qatar.