Rima Musa

Description

Rima Musa is a Palestinian confessional artist and photographer based in Amsterdam. She holds an MA in Applied Imagination from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Her artistic practice explores the intersections of personal narrative and embodied memory, employing self-portraiture and symbolic artefacts, most notably her Inside-Out Thobe, a Palestinian cross-stitched dress, as sites of resilience and reclamation. Grounded in autoethnographic methodologies, her work reframes personal grief as a critical inquiry into trauma, agency, and self-representation. Through the craft of Tatreez, she seeks to honour intergenerational knowledge and resilience, articulating the enduring power of traditional embroidery practices as a medium of both personal and collective remembrance.