ARTIST STATEMENT
To be an artist is to be vocal in all of your vulnerabilities. My art yells femininity, vulnerability, love, passion, pain, and all the dynamics of the human experience. In addition to serving as catharsis, art has become an engine of empowerment for me. The subjects I shied away from became easier to address when confronted on canvas.
Surrealism is the vehicle I use to express my thoughts and passions. The use of multiple mediums allow me the freedom to be even more distinct when communicating discoveries about myself or the world.
Whether it be actively listening to stories from the lives of others or sharing my own, art and cinema provide the opportunity to embrace and create work that is universally relatable even if the presentation is unorthodox.
BIO
Amira Hasib (b. 1996, California) is a multimedia artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in Film/Video from Pratt Institute.
The canvas is where the story begins. Film is where it mutates. Through these two methods of storytelling, Hasib fractures reality and invites the supernatural and surreal into this dimension. Her work confronts convention not by rejecting beauty, but by expanding it. Saturated color, dense texture, and unconventional portraiture become playful flirtations with the occult, the erotic and the unseen.
This art isn’t decorative. It’s relational. A mirror. A ritual. A quiet confrontation with your own becoming. If it unsettles you, seduces you, or feels uncomfortably familiar—that’s the point.