Home Participants 25th Biennale of Sydney (2026) Basil Al-Rawi
Basil Al-Rawi
Basil Al-Rawi
Born:
Kuwait
Lives in:
Ireland
Basil Al-Rawi is an Irish-Iraqi visual artist working across photography, moving image, sculpture, and immersive media. His practice uses archival and image-based processes to examine how personal and collective histories are mediated through technology, often merging physical and virtual space to reconstruct lost or silenced narratives. Informed by his dual heritage, Al-Rawi creates poetic counter-archives that explore how personal and cultural memory is formed and transmitted. Recent projects engage with virtual reality, film, and photographic archives to reimagine sites of displacement and belonging, offering spaces of reflection and re-connection between past and present.