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Qatar, Brazil

Current Resident: Apr 1, 2025–Jun 30, 2025

Fire Station - Qatar Museums

Studio #209

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Adriane de Souza

Adriane de Souza creates photographic narratives that intertwine documentary and personal histories. Her work delves into themes of identity, belonging, and the complexities of representation and visibility. With a background in Social Sciences from UFRJ and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Design Studies from VCUarts Qatar, she embraces a multidisciplinary approach. Recently, she has broadened her focus to include alternative photography printing and curation, exploring materiality and innovative storytelling techniques while further deepening her creative practice.

Adriane de Souza has exhibited work at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar; LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore; and Doha Film Institue, Qatar, among others.

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Photo of a man with a pink see-through cloth covering his face. The image shows his torso and he has his head tilted down, looking more vulnerable.
Adriane de Souza, I am not my father, 2019, archival paper print, 291/2 × 1911/16 in. (75.01 × 50.01 cm).
White fabric that is weaved as a carpet, hanged in a wooden stick. There are cyanotype images of women in my family who came before me. The fabric is long and it touches the ground.
Adriane de Souza, Thank you, 2023, fabric, cyanotype print, sound recording and wood, 1181/8 × 393/8 in. (300 × 100 cm).
A man wearing a thobe, a tagiyah posing as if he was putting on his thobe, with the clear blu sky behind him. Depicting a personal and intimate adjustment.
Adriane de Souza, The Process, 2020, archival paper print, 291/2 × 1911/16 in. (75.01 × 50.01 cm).
A close up of cement blocks piled on top of each other. The most blocks have an image transferred onto them that shows speakers and some blocks have the actual speaker installed inside it.
Adriane de Souza, Tchu Acha Acha: The Transformative Role of Funk, 2024, cement Blocks, paper, speakers and sound, 1181/8 × 783/4 in. (300 × 200 cm).
Two women standing side by side holding their table tennis rackets, wearing the Qatar National Uniform.
Adriane de Souza, Qawiya, 2021, archival paper print, 291/2 × 1911/16 in. (75.01 × 50.01 cm).

Residents from Brazil

Felipe de Ávila Franco

Brazil, Finland
Uniarts Helsinki's Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation
2023

Luiza Gottschalk

Brazil
2020

Yi-Hsuan Lin

Taiwan, Brazil
Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
2019
United States, Trinidad and Tobago

Current Resident: Mar 1, 2025–May 31, 2025

Vision Fund

Studio #203

Artist

Akeema-Zane

Akeema-Zane (she/her) is an artist and researcher working in the mediums of literature, film, performance and sound. a²z is the arm which houses some of the artists’ music/sound practice which includes deejaying, composition and scoring/sound design.

Akeema-Zane has exhibited work at Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia; Recess Art, New York; and Weeksville Heritage Center, New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Spring Open Studios 2025
April 25–April 26, 2025
In centering the historical contexts of The Great (Black) migration, The Harlem Renaissance and the collaborative spirits of James Weldon Johnson and Aaron Douglas, artists Akeema-Zane and Rena Anakwe immerse themselves in the Southern landscapes of Savannah, Georgia and Wilmington, North Carolina to invoke the text “Go Down, Death.” What emerges is a survey of the synergy between land and it’s cycles of death, as well as the rest that is needed for regeneration.
Akeema-Zane, Our Mourning Due, 2022-23, moving Image, 9:25 min.
Void Spa is an immersive installation replicating a contemplative cave experience with darkness, harsh ambient sound, geomancy, and tactile stimulation. This project examines how rites develop within post-industrial subcultures, especially through sensory design. It also rejects the extractive and appropriative use of Black and Brown spirituality within luxury wellness by reflecting instead on protected or disrupted traditions from their syncretic adaptations and media representations.
Akeema-Zane, Void Spa, 2023, installation.
From the Bronx to Trinidad, Maryland to New York, Tehran to Chicago, 9 entities emerges to illuminate three artists’ documented pasts and interpretations of discovering their private as a public history. Through mining what emerges as a map of publics, the artists discover a question of conception and draw on a shared obsession- mothers. How do we imagine the arrangement of things coming together to give notion to our sense of selves and our current realities?
Akeema-Zane, 9 Entities, 2022, video, 19:39 min.
Sonic Escape Routes seeks to explore the following: what is the spiritual core and where is the liminal space for a people whose freedom to thrive remains in question? and what are the varying routes that anchor us toward flight or resistance? Through a collaborative sound and visual performance, the artists aim to assert and embed their own personal narratives and histories to traverse the archives of Weeksville in order to answer these questions.”
Akeema-Zane, Sonic Escape Routes: Shall We Fly? or Shall We Resist?, 2020, video, 49:39 min.

Residents from Trinidad and Tobago

Kearra Amaya Gopee

United States, Trinidad and Tobago
Vision Fund
2024
Turkey

Current Resident: Mar 1, 2025–May 31, 2025

SAHA Association

Studio #204

Artist

Cem Örgen

Cem Örgen draws on his industrial design background to explore the histories, functions, and processes of materials through a lens of subjective and contextual movements. By uncovering collective memory from hidden, rushed, and isolated settings, he examines the moral dilemmas and unease triggered by everyday stimuli. Through a diverse range of media, Örgen reflects his hyper-situational values, creating works that embody affective states and processes with meticulous material control. His pieces, spanning sculpture, drawing, assemblage, text, and sound, appear simultaneously organic and artificial.

Cem Örgen has exhibited work at The Pill, Turkey; Les Urbaines, Switzerland; and IMALAT-HANE, Turkey, among others.

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Events & Exhibitions

Spring Open Studios 2025
April 25–April 26, 2025
CNC cut, power carved, paint-washed, and varnished plywood, epoxy fillings, blow-molded acrylic water lens, silicon sealant, and fine art print on aluminum.
Cem Örgen, Breakfast with Family, 2024, sculpture, 71 × 87 × 69 in. (180.34 × 220.98 × 175.26 cm).
Backpack straps, webbings, zippers, buckles stitched on polyethylene foam. Tools, products, mock-ups, test parts, and defective parts used in making the Risk of Rain exhibition.
Cem Örgen, Bag 3, 2024, sculpture, 4 × 18 × 10 in. (10.16 × 45.72 × 25.4 cm).
Laser welded, sandblasted aluminum, mirror, metal plate, pipes and spring, XPE foam.
Cem Örgen, Pop, 2023, sculpture and music video.
Fiber-optic, MRI, and X-ray films of the artist, his friends, family, and loved ones, plywood, screw eyes, aluminum.
Cem Örgen, Race Major, 2024, sculpture, 34 × 38 × 50 in. (86.36 × 96.52 × 127 cm).
Cem Örgen, Content, 2022, sculpture and video work, 55 × 67 × 102 in. (139.7 × 170.18 × 259.08 cm).

Residents from Turkey

Alper Aydin

Turkey
SAHA Association
2024

Eda Gecikmez

Turkey
SAHA Association
2023

Civan Özkanoğlu

United States, Turkey
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
2020

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