Sara Aref Ahli (b. 1993, Alabama) is an Emirati and Colombian-American visual artist and designer living and working between Dubai, UAE, and Providence, Rhode Island. Ahli's interdisciplinary practice spans fashion, sculpture, installation, and glass, exploring themes of body, memory, and home.
By engaging with materiality as a narrative, Sara explores intersections between memory, home, and the body. Her work delves into the physicality and labor of making, investigating vulnerability, thresholds, and resilience of the human form. In her artistic statement, she reflects:
"Involuntary memories resurface as visual fragments, echoing stories of my past. I undergo an artistic archaeology, excavating these hidden interiors to the surface. Through an embodied practice of shaping glass, I explore physicality and labor, uncovering thresholds of both body and material.”