Bio /
Rima Musa is a Palestinian confessional artist and photographer based in Amsterdam.
She holds an MA in Applied Imagination from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
Her artistic practice explores personal narrative and embodied memory, employing self-portraiture and symbolic artefacts, most notably her Inside-Out Thobe and The Seeds & Roots Thobe, as sites of resilience and reclamation.
Grounded in autoethnographic methodologies, her work reframes personal grief as a critical inquiry into trauma, agency, and self-representation.
Through the craft of Tatreez, she seeks to honour intergenerational knowledge and resilience, articulating the enduring power of traditional embroidery practices as a medium of both personal and collective remembrance.
I’ve contributed to / collaborated with / worked or interned at:
Central Saint Martins, UAL | Magnum Photos NYC |
Plastic Magazine | Frieze London | Design Museum London | Elie Saab | Atelier Loukia Athens | The Outpost Magazine | Bruce Davidson Studio NYC | de Appel Amsterdam | Cambridge School of Art | ESMOD Beirut | The Darkroom Firenze | London College of Fashion | Chelsea College of Arts
My photography has appeared in:
Plastic / Phaidon / Wired / Timeout / Frame / One Stop Arts / Dezeen / Pingmag