At Buro247 Middle East, we are committed to showcasing and celebrating the extraordinary talent in the Arab world. With our column, #BuroSpotlights, we bring you stories of pioneering artists, innovative designers, tech trailblazers, cinematic visionaries, sports stars, and more.
This week, #BuroSpotlights Qatari visual artist Nourah.
Nourah is an artist who blurs the line between logic and imagination. With an academic background in engineering and project management, she brings precision into her creative process, showing that science and art are not opposites but partners. Her work draws on digital fabrication, artificial intelligence, and contemporary design techniques, yet always carries the weight of cultural history. The combination makes her practice feel fresh and forward-thinking, while still deeply connected to heritage.
Her approach is shaped by figures like Leonardo da Vinci and Jaber bin Hayyan, who embodied the idea that invention and creativity are inseparable. In the same spirit, Nourah treats her studio as both laboratory and workshop, where technology becomes a medium and tradition becomes a starting point. She often takes motifs from Qatar’s cultural past and reimagines them through the lens of AI or digital design, creating work that looks firmly toward the future while never letting go of its roots.
The pieces she creates are more than visual experiences; they carry questions about identity, memory, and progress. By translating scientific principles into art, she encourages viewers to reconsider how they see the world and their place within it. This tension between heritage and innovation is central to her practice. Rather than preserving the past in isolation or surrendering completely to technology, she finds a way to let the two speak to each other, creating work that feels timely and timeless at once.
Her vision has already reached international platforms, with exhibitions at Doha Design District, TheArsenale, and Years of Culture. In each of these settings, her work has stood out for its ability to cross boundaries, refusing to settle into a single category or style. She moves with ease from immersive installations to digital experiments, always keeping her focus on how art can push conversation forward.
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