Basma Alsharif
An image from The Story of Milk and Honey, one of the productions that also features Basma Alsharif.
Basma Alsharif

Basma Alsharif

January 1, 1983 — Kuwait

Basma Alsharif is an Artist/Filmmaker born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents, raised between France and the US. Since receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, she developed her practice nomadically between Chicago, Cairo, Beirut, Sharjah, Amman, the Gaza Strip and Paris. Basma's work centers on the human condition in relation to shifting geopolitical landscapes and natural environments. Interested in what cannot ever be proven or explained, she uses photography, film, video, sound, language and performance to reveal the fallibility of our perception and of history. Engaging with politics on a visceral level through pieces characterized by their immersive, lyrical qualities, Alsharif creates familiar environments that lure us into unsettling experiences of being comfortable and foreign simultaneously.

Deep Sleep

Deep Sleep

2014

Atlantis

Atlantis

2014

Ouroboros

Ouroboros

2017

The Story of Milk and Honey

The Story of Milk and Honey

2011

We Began by Measuring Distance

2009

Home Movies Gaza

Home Movies Gaza

2013

Farther Than the Eye Can See

2013

A Field Guide to the Ferns

2015