Visual Artist
Languages: Arabic
Abdulraheem Salem is an Emirati visual artist and sculptor whose practice has shaped the UAE’s modern visual arts landscape. Working across sculpture and painting, he brings Arab and Emirati symbols into an expressive visual language grounded in memory, landscape, and human feeling.
A practice concerned with Emirati identity and Arab cultural memory, using visual form to hold personal recollection and shared symbols.
Identity, cultural memory, landscape, symbolism, emotion, form
Works across sculpture and painting, combining cultural symbols with figurative and expressive approaches. Explores light and form as carriers of narrative and feeling.