Jassim AlDhamin, b. 1988, Qatif, Saudi Arabia
Residing and working in the eastern Saudi city of Qatif, artist Jassim has cultivated a practice rooted in intimate reflections on selfhood, memory, and identity. His work, often marked by the recurring motif of drawn ghosts, serves as a visual meditation on the internal dialogues that shape our sense of being.
These spectral figures, both elusive and evocative, offer more than metaphor—they become vessels through which Jassim interrogates the boundaries between the personal and the collective, the romantic and the existential. At times, his work adopts a lyrical tone, tracing the emotional terrain of solitude and self-romance; elsewhere, it confronts broader cultural shifts, probing how social behaviors evolve under the pressure of changing ethics, values, and belief systems.
Jassim’s visual language is expressive yet deliberate, informed by personal experiences that anchor his philosophical inquiries in a lived reality. The tension between the inner world and external forces is a recurring theme—rendered not as conflict, but as conversation. In doing so, he invites viewers into a layered encounter: one that challenges them to reconsider the relationship between individual consciousness and the world it inhabits.