The work of Rheim Alkadhi might be called an experiment in aesthetic intervention. Her work presents the tools for performance with the idea that any subject can enter the world stage at any moment. Intimations of poetic resistance are urged, insinuating a desperate need to offer alternate models of beauty.

Rheim Alkadhi was born in 1973 in Buffalo, New York to an Iraqi father and an Anglo-American mother. Residing in Iraq during the 70’s, her family quietly returned to the States at the start of the Iran-Iraq War. In 1991 she traveled to Palestine/Israel with a Quaker organization called Fellowship of Reconciliation. She received a BFA and MFA from CalArts and UC Irvine. Since then her work has been shown in the U.S. and Canada.