Absence and Representation: Pantone Matching Project, Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki, Finland, 2015

Rah started this work as a solo performance “NW25” (Neutral Warm 25) for Process 9 at Artscape Youngplace in Toronto. Rah was invited by MUU Gallery in Finland to create a performance for Art Fair Suomi. The one-hour performance involved several female collaborators and each woman had the numerical code of their skin tone based …

Oriental Dance Workshop, Coalesce, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2015

The Oriental Dance Workshop was performed by Rah’s character  Fatimeh. This workshop has been performed at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY (August 2015), Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (September 2015) and Nuit Blanche Montreal ( February 2016). Fatimeh is an accessible character and she uses comedy to lure the participant while confronting them …