In Psychic Repair, the artist Farah Al Qasimi transforms girlhood fears, internet aesthetics, and supernatural belief into visual language. Through film and photography, the exhibition explores truth, haunting, and the unseen forces shaping contemporary life between the UAE and the United States.
The three films in “Psychic Repair” unfold with the upmost intimacy and short but powerful duration. Shown at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, the exhibition brings together moving image and photography to examine belief, fear, and the fragile structures we use to make sense of the world. Written and performed by Farah Al Qasimi herself, the films feel intimate, they are not only narratives, they aim to challenge us.
Known for interrogating how emotion and power circulate online, Al Qasimi approaches the supernatural not as fantasy but as social fact. Jump-rope chants, spoken poetry, and punk inflected songs become prophetic mantras. In one film, she reconstructs her teenage bedroom and appears as the monster beneath the bed, collapsing fear and self into the same figure. Girlhood, archive and lens.
