{"id":1787587,"date":"2026-02-23T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1787587"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:57:00","slug":"these-photos-explore-the-internets-supernatural-depths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1787587","title":{"rendered":"These photos explore the internet\u2019s supernatural depths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-2442-1628\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438073.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/art-photography\/article\/69693\/1\/farah-al-qasimi-you-cant-photograph-a-ghost\" data-article-id=\"69693\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.84\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1628\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438073.jpg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">Farah Al Qasimi<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-02-23T13:57:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"23 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"23\">23,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - art-photography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/q-and-a\">Q+A<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/q-and-a\">Q+A<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>These photos explore the internet\u2019s <span class=\"nowrap\">supernatural depths<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>\u2018You can\u2019t photograph a ghost\u2019: In Psychic Repair, photographer and musician Farah Al Qasimi captures invisible powers, haunting plastic dolls that will never biodegrade and the \u2018slippery idea <span class=\"nowrap\">of truth\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-02-23T13:57:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"23 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"23\">23,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-02-23T13:57:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"23 February 2026\"><span class=\"month\">February<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"23\">23,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/laurapitcher\">Laura Pitcher<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-7-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Farah Al Qasimi, <span class=\"nowrap\">Psychic Repair<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/0\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438075.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/1\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1651\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2476-1651\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438069.png\" width=\"2476\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/2\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1658\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2487-1658\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438074.jpg\" width=\"2487\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/3\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1432\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2148-1432\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438070.jpeg\" width=\"2148\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/4\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1628\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2442-1628\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438073.jpg\" width=\"2442\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/5\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438072.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 7 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The three films in Farah Al Qasimi\u2019s latest show at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scad.edu\/event\/2026-01-30-farah-al-qasimi-exhibition-psychic-repair\">SCAD Museum of Art<\/a>\u00a0in Savannah,\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Psychic Repair<\/span><\/em><span>, are the length of songs. The photographer and musician, who\u2019s known for interrogating the hierarchies of information and emotion inherent in the internet, wrote them herself. \u201cThey\u2019re almost like music videos,\u201d she says. \u201cLike a teenage girl writing lyrics in a notebook.\u201d The videos transform jump-rope rhymes, spoken poetry and punk rock songs into prophetic mantras. In one, Qasimi even replicated her teenage bedroom and performed as the monster that lives under the bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Psychic Repair<\/span><\/em><span>, which runs until June 7, Qasimi faces the monsters under the bed and the ghosts in her closet head-on. Throughout the exhibition, highly saturated images that explore rituals of self-presentation are layered in a style reminiscent of early internet pop-up ads and department store displays. Informed by both her girlhood in the United Arab Emirates and adulthood in the US, Qasimi uses the supernatural to gain an understanding of how the people around her see the world. It operates as a metaphor for the unseen forces at play in daily life. Patterns, shadows and materials serve their purpose as conduits for fantasy and phantasm. It all comes down to this question: what do you believe in that you have no conclusive evidence for?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I spoke to Qasimi early this month, while she was in Bushwick. It was a few days before her 35th birthday, and she was waiting for the black ice to melt. Below, she shares her supernatural experiences from childhood, why she wants to explore the \u201cslippery idea of truth\u201d, and what constitutes a modern-day haunting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"8eb8c71d-cb5b-44ba-b64e-b3f601467c72\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1899\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438068.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.63\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438068.jpg\" width=\"1899\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Farah Al Qasimi, &#8220;Leopard Print Blanket,&#8221; 2022, archival inkjet print, 33 x 50 in. Courtesy of the artist and Fran\u00e7ois Ghebaly, <span class=\"nowrap\">Los Angeles.<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<p><strong>Tell me about the name,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><em>Psychic Repair<\/em><\/strong><strong>. Why did you want to explore the supernatural?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>I\u2019ve always been interested in the supernatural. It\u2019s fascinating because it really shows you how different people\u2019s belief systems are. There are parts of my family who are like, \u2018Of course ghosts aren\u2019t real, that\u2019s silly\u2019. Other members are like, \u2018Yes, they are real, and I survived an attempted possession.\u2019 We\u2019re all Muslim, so we all practice the same faith fairly similarly. As a child, when you are starting to form beliefs about the world, the supernatural is one of the first avenues where you notice these completely differing beliefs and convictions from adults. That central question of what is true and what is someone\u2019s imagining carried into adulthood for me. The more I think about the supernatural, the more I feel like it\u2019s not just this ghostly realm. It\u2019s some form of power that we cannot physically see. As a child of the internet, that felt like the first manifestation of some sort of invisible presence that we all felt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The exhibition was informed by your own experiences of girlhood. How supernatural were you as a child, and how has it evolved over time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>I had a healthy fear of the supernatural as a child. In school, and before the internet, our vernacular experience of the supernatural was through myths like Bloody Mary. I think every culture, every school, every group of kids had their own version of that. I remember trying an Ouija board with two friends of mine when I was in the fourth grade, and we were convinced that something was happening. But you don\u2019t really know \u2013 it\u2019s an unnamed source of energy that comes from us all together, believing in something so resolutely that it is happening. It\u2019s similar to astrology. Some people think it\u2019s absolute garbage, but I want to understand where people put themselves on the spectrum when there\u2019s a perceived lack of empirical evidence for something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think knowing people\u2019s relationship to the supernatural helps you understand them a little better?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>A little bit. For a lot of people, some form of spiritualism or belief in something outside of themselves is a north star. For others, humanity is that. This idea of evidence is why I am so interested in the supernatural. As a photographer, it\u2019s something I could never react to photographically. You can\u2019t photograph a ghost. So, how do you bring into focus the failure of the camera to be an agent of proof and truth-telling? It\u2019s become an important analogy for me as somebody who has roots in street photography and documentary-style storytelling to challenge what the medium does with this kind of slippery idea of truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The show notes in<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><em>Psychic Repair<\/em><\/strong><strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>mention how the supernatural operates as a metaphor for the unseen, transient forces of contemporary beauty and fashion culture. Could you tell me more about the link there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>I was thinking more broadly about consumerism. The show is named after one of the videos in it, about a plastic doll who gets discarded quickly and ends up in a landfill, but can\u2019t disintegrate. She comes back to haunt her previous owners. The idea behind the film comes from thinking about metaphysicality and the porousness of different materials. When we think about haunted dolls, we usually think about Victorian dolls. But those were made from organic fabrics that come from the earth without any intervention. Now, you have plastic that can only exist after all of this mediation that takes it so far away from its original form. Everybody knows that the world is being completely overtaken by plastic garbage. So how do these newer materials relate to the concept of haunting?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"aca4a4b0-2778-4853-8023-b3f601481558\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438069.png\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.82\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1651\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438069.png\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Farah Al Qasimi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>I want to know more about the doll. Who is she?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<\/strong><span>\u00a0I found her at the Emirati equivalent of a Dollar Store. Abu Dhabi is turning into more of a pedestrian city than it was when I grew up there. I go on these really long evening walks, and sometimes I\u2019ll see something in a window, and I\u2019ll go into a shop. I also collect mechanical toys. Part of what\u2019s freaky about them is that they look haunted because they move on their own. There are so many famous haunted doll movies because they are often such poor simulations and caricatures of human likeness. That uncanny shivery feeling is already there. So I let her wander around the kitchen in the dark. I had already written the song in the film, but she seemed like the perfect agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How are the photos in conversation with the films?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>When I make photographs, which is really kind of the central process to all of my different ways of working in my practice, there are a set of things that I always want to return to. The simplest version is that I like to make photographs of my friends. I work between New York and the Emirates; I\u2019m from both places. So it\u2019s natural that my work so far has mostly been in those places. With a lot of interior portraits or domestic portraits, there is this sense that the person is hiding from something. The photographs engage that anxiety of being seen and wanting to turn away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you think people are craving the supernatural right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>Part of the reason why people are looking for this additional kind of comfort that they might not be able to find in a church or a mosque is that there is a justified complete loss of faith for humanity and what it\u2019s meant to stand for. Multiple genocides are unfolding on the internet in front of our very eyes. In the US, we\u2019re seeing complete brutality by ICE, who are agents of chaos. It\u2019s natural to want some affirmation that somehow, somewhere in all of this, there is still something to be preserved. That there is something worth pulling from the rubble. For me, in moments where I feel that way, I turn to people who are older, who lived through the Cold War or just have seen the different cycles of violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We spoke earlier about girlhood. What parts of the exhibition pull from your experience of womanhood in the US specifically?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>Now, as someone who is in my mid-thirties, I look back at the rage that I felt when I was in my early mid-teens and how it was this really potent combination of internal narcissistic rage that any young person feels, combined with a deep sense of concern about the state of the world. I mean, 9\/11 happened when I was 10. I was surrounded by the genesis of all of the language, all of the scaffolding of language that enabled the US to carry out so many egregious acts of terror against Iraq and the Arab world. 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You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-7-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Farah Al Qasimi, <span class=\"nowrap\">Psychic Repair<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/0\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438075.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/1\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1651\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2476-1651\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438069.png\" width=\"2476\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/2\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1658\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2487-1658\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438074.jpg\" width=\"2487\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/3\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1432\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2148-1432\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438070.jpeg\" width=\"2148\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/4\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1628\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2442-1628\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438073.jpg\" width=\"2442\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36712\/5\/farah-al-qasimi-psychic-repair\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438072.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 7 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The three films in Farah Al Qasimi\u2019s latest show at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scad.edu\/event\/2026-01-30-farah-al-qasimi-exhibition-psychic-repair\">SCAD Museum of Art<\/a>\u00a0in Savannah,\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Psychic Repair<\/span><\/em><span>, are the length of songs. The photographer and musician, who\u2019s known for interrogating the hierarchies of information and emotion inherent in the internet, wrote them herself. \u201cThey\u2019re almost like music videos,\u201d she says. \u201cLike a teenage girl writing lyrics in a notebook.\u201d The videos transform jump-rope rhymes, spoken poetry and punk rock songs into prophetic mantras. In one, Qasimi even replicated her teenage bedroom and performed as the monster that lives under the bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Psychic Repair<\/span><\/em><span>, which runs until June 7, Qasimi faces the monsters under the bed and the ghosts in her closet head-on. Throughout the exhibition, highly saturated images that explore rituals of self-presentation are layered in a style reminiscent of early internet pop-up ads and department store displays. Informed by both her girlhood in the United Arab Emirates and adulthood in the US, Qasimi uses the supernatural to gain an understanding of how the people around her see the world. It operates as a metaphor for the unseen forces at play in daily life. Patterns, shadows and materials serve their purpose as conduits for fantasy and phantasm. It all comes down to this question: what do you believe in that you have no conclusive evidence for?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I spoke to Qasimi early this month, while she was in Bushwick. It was a few days before her 35th birthday, and she was waiting for the black ice to melt. Below, she shares her supernatural experiences from childhood, why she wants to explore the \u201cslippery idea of truth\u201d, and what constitutes a modern-day haunting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"8eb8c71d-cb5b-44ba-b64e-b3f601467c72\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1899\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438068.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.63\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438068.jpg\" width=\"1899\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Farah Al Qasimi, &#8220;Leopard Print Blanket,&#8221; 2022, archival inkjet print, 33 x 50 in. Courtesy of the artist and Fran\u00e7ois Ghebaly, <span class=\"nowrap\">Los Angeles.<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html-embed\">\n<p><strong>Tell me about the name,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><em>Psychic Repair<\/em><\/strong><strong>. Why did you want to explore the supernatural?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>I\u2019ve always been interested in the supernatural. It\u2019s fascinating because it really shows you how different people\u2019s belief systems are. There are parts of my family who are like, \u2018Of course ghosts aren\u2019t real, that\u2019s silly\u2019. Other members are like, \u2018Yes, they are real, and I survived an attempted possession.\u2019 We\u2019re all Muslim, so we all practice the same faith fairly similarly. As a child, when you are starting to form beliefs about the world, the supernatural is one of the first avenues where you notice these completely differing beliefs and convictions from adults. That central question of what is true and what is someone\u2019s imagining carried into adulthood for me. The more I think about the supernatural, the more I feel like it\u2019s not just this ghostly realm. It\u2019s some form of power that we cannot physically see. As a child of the internet, that felt like the first manifestation of some sort of invisible presence that we all felt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The exhibition was informed by your own experiences of girlhood. How supernatural were you as a child, and how has it evolved over time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>I had a healthy fear of the supernatural as a child. In school, and before the internet, our vernacular experience of the supernatural was through myths like Bloody Mary. I think every culture, every school, every group of kids had their own version of that. I remember trying an Ouija board with two friends of mine when I was in the fourth grade, and we were convinced that something was happening. But you don\u2019t really know \u2013 it\u2019s an unnamed source of energy that comes from us all together, believing in something so resolutely that it is happening. It\u2019s similar to astrology. Some people think it\u2019s absolute garbage, but I want to understand where people put themselves on the spectrum when there\u2019s a perceived lack of empirical evidence for something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think knowing people\u2019s relationship to the supernatural helps you understand them a little better?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>A little bit. For a lot of people, some form of spiritualism or belief in something outside of themselves is a north star. For others, humanity is that. This idea of evidence is why I am so interested in the supernatural. As a photographer, it\u2019s something I could never react to photographically. You can\u2019t photograph a ghost. So, how do you bring into focus the failure of the camera to be an agent of proof and truth-telling? It\u2019s become an important analogy for me as somebody who has roots in street photography and documentary-style storytelling to challenge what the medium does with this kind of slippery idea of truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The show notes in<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><em>Psychic Repair<\/em><\/strong><strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>mention how the supernatural operates as a metaphor for the unseen, transient forces of contemporary beauty and fashion culture. Could you tell me more about the link there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>I was thinking more broadly about consumerism. The show is named after one of the videos in it, about a plastic doll who gets discarded quickly and ends up in a landfill, but can\u2019t disintegrate. She comes back to haunt her previous owners. The idea behind the film comes from thinking about metaphysicality and the porousness of different materials. When we think about haunted dolls, we usually think about Victorian dolls. But those were made from organic fabrics that come from the earth without any intervention. Now, you have plastic that can only exist after all of this mediation that takes it so far away from its original form. Everybody knows that the world is being completely overtaken by plastic garbage. So how do these newer materials relate to the concept of haunting?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"aca4a4b0-2778-4853-8023-b3f601481558\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438069.png\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.82\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Farah Al Qasimi, Psychic Repair\" class=\"img\" height=\"1651\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1430\/8\/1438069.png\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Farah Al Qasimi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><strong>I want to know more about the doll. Who is she?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<\/strong><span>\u00a0I found her at the Emirati equivalent of a Dollar Store. Abu Dhabi is turning into more of a pedestrian city than it was when I grew up there. I go on these really long evening walks, and sometimes I\u2019ll see something in a window, and I\u2019ll go into a shop. I also collect mechanical toys. Part of what\u2019s freaky about them is that they look haunted because they move on their own. There are so many famous haunted doll movies because they are often such poor simulations and caricatures of human likeness. That uncanny shivery feeling is already there. So I let her wander around the kitchen in the dark. I had already written the song in the film, but she seemed like the perfect agent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How are the photos in conversation with the films?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>When I make photographs, which is really kind of the central process to all of my different ways of working in my practice, there are a set of things that I always want to return to. The simplest version is that I like to make photographs of my friends. I work between New York and the Emirates; I\u2019m from both places. So it\u2019s natural that my work so far has mostly been in those places. With a lot of interior portraits or domestic portraits, there is this sense that the person is hiding from something. The photographs engage that anxiety of being seen and wanting to turn away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do you think people are craving the supernatural right now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>Part of the reason why people are looking for this additional kind of comfort that they might not be able to find in a church or a mosque is that there is a justified complete loss of faith for humanity and what it\u2019s meant to stand for. Multiple genocides are unfolding on the internet in front of our very eyes. In the US, we\u2019re seeing complete brutality by ICE, who are agents of chaos. It\u2019s natural to want some affirmation that somehow, somewhere in all of this, there is still something to be preserved. That there is something worth pulling from the rubble. For me, in moments where I feel that way, I turn to people who are older, who lived through the Cold War or just have seen the different cycles of violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We spoke earlier about girlhood. What parts of the exhibition pull from your experience of womanhood in the US specifically?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Farah Al Qasimi:<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span>Now, as someone who is in my mid-thirties, I look back at the rage that I felt when I was in my early mid-teens and how it was this really potent combination of internal narcissistic rage that any young person feels, combined with a deep sense of concern about the state of the world. I mean, 9\/11 happened when I was 10. I was surrounded by the genesis of all of the language, all of the scaffolding of language that enabled the US to carry out so many egregious acts of terror against Iraq and the Arab world. In seeing that, and being suddenly aware of the fact that everything I learned about justice was not reflected in the world at large, there was a lot of anger. I grew up in a place that doesn\u2019t have the history of external public protest in the way that the US does, so seeing young people go outside of themselves and protest ICE or organise school walkouts is so brave and punk rock. That\u2019s where hope lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Farah Al Qasimi\u2019s<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Psychic Repair<em><span>\u00a0<\/span>is running at<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scadmoa.org\/exhibitions\/psychic-repair\">SCAD<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>until 7 June 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! 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