Ibi Ibrahim (b.1987) is a visual artist, filmmaker, musician and cultural practitioner from Yemen. Ibrahim is the founder of Romooz Foundation; an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to support emerging Art and Literature in Yemen. In late 2019, Ibrahim co-founded ARSHEEF; a contemporary art gallery based in Sana’a dedicated to...
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Ibi Ibrahim's first color photographs attempt was in 2012 when he introduced his first photographs from the Sitara series. A traditional colorful fabric once worn by women in Yemen before the importation of the black Abbaya. "The Sitara evokes the image of the free Yemeni woman of the past – the ‘forgotten queen’ – contrasting the current status of women as sinful objects that must be covered in black." - Ibi Ibrahim