Rabila Kidwai
We are delighted to announce that Rabila Kidwai has joined Dom Art Projects as our latest Studio Resident
Rabila Kidwai
Rabila Kidwai is a visual artist whose work explores the poetics of gendered and collective spaces. Originally from Pakistan and based in the UAE, her practice draws on the urban environment as a site of spatial bricolage, documenting the quiet negotiations of everyday life and conditions of close domestic proximity. She is particularly drawn to the infraordinary, moments of endurance shaped by repetition, restriction, and proximity. Her work often assumes a literal interpretation of a no man’s land.
Working across visual art, film, and publishing, Kidwai maintains an artistically driven design practice grounded in arts and culture, with a sustained interest in print and independent modes of production. Drawing functions as a central act of looking in her work, through which bodily presences and everyday encounters are observed and translated into layered visual forms.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions and programmes including SEEN/SCENE IV, In Good Company, Focal Point Art Book Fair, Made in Tashkeel, Sikka Art & Design Festival, and the collateral exhibition River in an Ocean at the Lahore Biennial. She has worked on numerous publication design commissions independently and in collaboration with institutions and artists. Major works include Rewilding the Kitchen, Jaffa and the Present Absence: A Collection of Loss, and Foraging the Mina. She is currently developing an artist publication programme with Bait Al Mamzar. Kidwai is a recipient of the Shaikha Salama Emerging Artist Fellowship 2024–2025 and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Design from the National College of Arts.
Working across visual art, film, and publishing, Kidwai maintains an artistically driven design practice grounded in arts and culture, with a sustained interest in print and independent modes of production. Drawing functions as a central act of looking in her work, through which bodily presences and everyday encounters are observed and translated into layered visual forms.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions and programmes including SEEN/SCENE IV, In Good Company, Focal Point Art Book Fair, Made in Tashkeel, Sikka Art & Design Festival, and the collateral exhibition River in an Ocean at the Lahore Biennial. She has worked on numerous publication design commissions independently and in collaboration with institutions and artists. Major works include Rewilding the Kitchen, Jaffa and the Present Absence: A Collection of Loss, and Foraging the Mina. She is currently developing an artist publication programme with Bait Al Mamzar. Kidwai is a recipient of the Shaikha Salama Emerging Artist Fellowship 2024–2025 and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Design from the National College of Arts.