As we bring our winter residency season to a close, we invite you to join us for an intimate evening to meet our current residents and gain insight into their creative practices.

This drop-in event offers the chance to meet our current residents and experience new, existing, and in-development works presented across the Delfina house by Gouled Ahmed, Nouf Alhimiary, Ranim AlHalaky, Seung Ae Lee, Alejandra Mizrahi, Rega Ayundya Putri, Anastasia Sosunova, and Abeer Sultan.

Presenting Residents

Gouled Ahmed (Djibouti) is a visual artist, costume designer and filmmaker. Their practice examines modern shrouding mechanisms – the veil, ceremonial mask-making, and the crafting of anti-recognition garments – as technologies of resistance; using them as tools to revolt against state-designed surveillance mechanisms and as means to discuss the themes of invisibility, hypervisibility, and disappearing.

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.

Ranim AlHalaky (Syria/Lebanon) is a Syrian-Lebanese graphic designer and visual artist whose work explores typography as a vessel for memory, storytelling, and cultural identity. Working across print, spatial installation, and material experimentation, she translates intergenerational narratives—often rooted in migration, oral history, and place—into visual and tactile forms. For Ranim, language is not merely a means of communication but a spatial and emotional medium; letterforms become vessels for rupture, recollection, and resonance.

Seung Ae Lee’s (South Korea) practice is an exploration of the invisible world, giving form to realms of dreams, the soul, and memory, which she believes are the true foundations of reality. Drawing on traditional East Asian knowledge of spiritual connections, Seung Ae uses the physical, meditative acts of drawing and animation as her primary language. The laborious process of layering and erasing graphite becomes a ritual to connect with this unseen world and record the traces of the soul.

Alejandra Mizrahi (Argentina) embraces ancestral artisanal textile techniques through experimental approaches. Her research revolves around the construction of textiles based on teaching and learning devices such as antique manuals and the expertise of both master weavers and their dechados – fragments of fabrics in which women have historically showcased their virtuosity in various techniques of needlework. Her work alternates between collective and individual praxis, focusing on understanding textiles as epistemologies, aiming to recover and give visibility to underrepresented textile technologies.

Rega Ayundya Putri (Indonesia) creates intuitive, speculative works rooted in drawing and child-like imagination. Influenced by sci-fi films and comics, her practice evolves between animation, installation, sound and collaborative performance. Often using discarded materials, she mutates fact into fiction, questioning reality and its absurdities.

Anastasia Sosunova (Lithuania) combines video, installation, graphics and sculpture, to centre on the multifaceted connections between signs and faith in a secular society, exploring manifestations of magical thinking and the mobilisation of communities. She works with topics related to the coexistence of seemingly incompatible value systems, charting alternative forms of contemporary folklore.

Abeer Sultan (Saudi Arabia), in her artistic and curatorial practice, explores themes of memory, decay, and preservation; examining how these concepts manifest in both personal and collective narratives. In essence, Abeer seeks to question the politics of memory and identity, inviting an exploration of the invisible threads that connect us all.

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Our winter 2026 residency partners and supporters include: Lithuanian Culture Institute, Saudi Visual Arts Commission (VAC), Rambourg Foundation, Delfina Foundation’s Network of Patrons for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, Fundación RSV, Colección Balanz, Delfina Foundation’s Network of Africa Patrons, SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation, and Delfina Foundation’s Network of Asia Pacific Patrons.