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Farah Al Qasimi describes her aesthetic as “so-muchness.” Inspired by everything from to Octavia Butler’s dystopian novels, the Emirati-raised maximalist tends toward extravagant ornamentation and sly obfuscation in her photographs, which filter consumer culture, futurist kitsch, and the trappings of femininity through a dizzying postcolonial lens to

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