Rabah Kamal

About

Rabah Kamal is a writer and artist working across sculpture, printmaking, painting, film, and sound. She uses everyday materials—such as wood and paper—that remind us of the traditional craftworks that shape our daily lives and are passed down across generations and geographies.

Guided by that inheritance, she interlaces words and imagery in intricate, often delicate or obscured layers. These works evoke our inner landscapes. They accentuate the edges of these terrains—the rough or sharp limits of self-awareness we rarely explore, and often struggle to articulate. They gesture, via shadows, toward the steady presences in every room that help us navigate these unknowns: the people, past and present, whose voices we carry; the stories we commit to retelling, imperfectly but necessarily.

In bringing together languages, familiar materials, and multiple narrators, Rabah’s work unsettles the idea of a single authorial voice. Instead, her practice holds a kind of expanded, collective experience of poetry. Each piece offers an entryway: a place where someone might find language for what they already know or feel, and might begin to write alongside it in their own way. In loosening the boundaries between language, making, and listening, she hopes to open a space for quiet exchanges, too—for moments where we might turn to one another to broach the difficult yet generative conversations that write our future.