Conditions For Being, Rim Albahrani

Conditions for Being introduces Rim’s new body of work, exploring identity as something shaped by grounding rather than inheritance. While roots traditionally signal origin and belonging, Rim reframes them as structures of support instead of fixed markers.

Each sculpture pairs a grounding base with an abstract house form. The base is not a pedestal but a spatial condition that determines how the form above holds its presence. Through this exchange between ground and form, Rim investigates how identity grows from context and chosen points of grounding.

Her approach echoes anti-essentialist and phenomenological thought, proposing that identity arises from the conditions in which it exists rather than from predetermined narratives. The recurring house form becomes a tool for examining how a structure inhabits space.

Conditions for Being presents identity as fluid and shaped by the present—continually formed by the subtle forces that hold and support it.