• Nouf Alhimiary ‘Machine Poetry’ (2023), Courtesy of Hope 93 Gallery and Yasmine Helou.

    Nouf Alhimiary, Still, Divided From You, Surrounded By You (2019), Courtesy of Goldsmith Women’s Art Library.

  • Nouf Alhimiary Installation View, ‘Map of Bodies and Intimacies’ (2025), Courtesy of Royal College of the Arts Curation Department

    Nouf Alhimiary, Installation View, Map of Bodies and Intimacies (2025), Courtesy of Royal College of the Arts Curation Department.

  • Nouf Alhimiary Performance View, ‘Love’ (2019), Albany Theatre, Courtesy of Commun Collective.

    Nouf Alhimiary, Performance View, Love (2019), Albany Theatre, Courtesy of Commun Collective.

  • Nouf Alhimiary Still, ‘Divided From You, Surrounded By You’ (2019), Courtesy of Goldsmith Women’s Art Library.

    Nouf Alhimiary, Still, Divided From You, Surrounded By You (2019), Courtesy of Goldsmith Women’s Art Library.

  • Nouf Alhimiary Website still, ‘Algorithmic Intimacies 2019', Courtesy of Mosaic Rooms and Hervisions

    Nouf Alhimiary, Website still, Algorithmic Intimacies 2019, Courtesy of Mosaic Rooms and Hervisions.

Nouf Alhimiary (Saudi Arabia) is a research-led artist whose practice examines the critical embodiment and materiality of digital life, specifically how the body performs ‘memory work’ digitally. Her research and practice produce knowledge through theory, multi-media installations, image, performance, and text. Alhimiary explores the intersection of feminine embodiment and techno-poetics. Her work aims to enact what she terms ‘disorderly lingerings’ within the digital archive as a form of political praxis against platform logic and erasure.

During the residency, Nouf will explore the concept of the ‘computer as a feeling’ by reconfiguring digital technologies into ritual objects that hold memory and somatic presence. Her work develops a ‘score of disorderly lingerings,’ reclaiming the micro-choreographies of the hand as a defiant, embodied archive against the efficiency of algorithmic mapping.

Nouf recently completed a PhD in Culture, Communication & Media at University College London (2025), and holds an MSc in Gender, Media & Culture from the London School of Economics (2019). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, salons, and festivals across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. Selected exhibitions include High Tides at the Royal College of Art (2025); Rise Habibi at the Crypt, Shubbak Festival (2025); The Salon of Disobedience at Mosaic Rooms (2019); and Rhizoma: Generation in Waiting at the Venice Biennale (2015). Essays by Nouf have been featured in publications such as gal-dem (2019), and she has appeared as a featured artist in Marie Claire Arabia (2025), Juliet (2024), Harper’s Bazaar (2023), and Grazia (2022).

Nouf was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is currently based there.

With support from:

Saudi Visual Arts Commission (VAC)

Artist’s website

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