Farah Al Qasimi, Patterns
Published by Note Note Editions
Contributor
Clelia Coussonnet
I interviewed Farah Al Qasimi in the framework of Patterns, her new publication at Note Note Editions, carving out what drives her passion for motifs. The text opens the volume that features a selection of photographs from recent years.
‘One of my earliest memories is of a Persian rug at my childhood home in Abu Dhabi – I loved looking at it for hours, projecting myself into its maze of vines, trees and peacock feathers. I wanted so badly to teleport to this world that I believed was real and animated inside the carpet. Patterns are repetitions of form and theme, but beyond that, they are universes to fall into – geographic planes with rules of their own.’
Farah Al Qasimi, Patterns
Published by Note Note Edition
Contributor
Clelia Coussonnet
I interviewed Farah Al Qasimi in the framework of Patterns, her new publication at Note Note Editions, carving out what drives her passion for motifs. The text opens the volume that features a selection of photographs from recent years.
‘One of my earliest memories is of a Persian rug at my childhood home in Abu Dhabi – I loved looking at it for hours, projecting myself into its maze of vines, trees and peacock feathers. I wanted so badly to teleport to this world that I believed was real and animated inside the carpet. Patterns are repetitions of form and theme, but beyond that, they are universes to fall into – geographic planes with rules of their own.’
Info
DESIGNED AT Studio Mathieu Meyer
September 2024, English
21 x 25,5 cm, 56 pages, 51 photographies en couleur, softcover with a cut out in dust jacked
Edition of 550 copies
ISBN 978–2–493467–07–2
About ‘Note Note Éditions presents Note Note Collection, a singular editorial project. Positioned between fanzine and book, Note Note Collection presents in images the recurring “obsessions” that inform the work of contemporary photographers.
With each issue, a photographer is invited to use these pages as a forum for exploring a favourite theme or feature a person or thing that is meaningful for him or her, in a way that is funny and absurd or weighty and serious.
For this third volume, Farah Al Qasimi takes us into her kaleidoscopic world, where, beyond beauty and sweetness, the motifs and objects she captures embody contradictions.’
About ‘Note Note Éditions presents Note Note Collection, a singular editorial project. Positioned between fanzine and book, Note Note Collection presents in images the recurring “obsessions” that inform the work of contemporary photographers.
With each issue, a photographer is invited to use these pages as a forum for exploring a favourite theme or feature a person or thing that is meaningful for him or her, in a way that is funny and absurd or weighty and serious.
For this third volume, Farah Al Qasimi takes us into her kaleidoscopic world, where, beyond beauty and sweetness, the motifs and objects she captures embody contradictions.’
Info
DESIGNED AT Studio Mathieu Meyer
September 2024, English
21 x 25,5 cm, 56 pages, 51 photographies en couleur, softcover with a cut out in dust jacked
Edition of 550 copies
ISBN 978–2–493467–07–2
‘Patterns, even when clashing, say something about aspiration, self-reflexiveness and belonging.’
— Quotes from Patterns, 2024
‘Patterns, even when clashing, say something about aspiration, self-reflexiveness and belonging.’
— Quotes from Patterns, 2024
