Kareen Adam
Kareen is a Maldivian artist based in Narrm, Australia. Her multi-disciplinary practice interrogates the personal, social and political complexities of living between two homes with vastly different cultures and histories. Her current work critiques colonial mechanisms embedded in tourism representations of island destinations, and subverts marketing mediums and tourism paraphernalia to disrupt the tourist gaze. Kareen has exhibited works in Maldives, Australia and parts of the Asia Pacific. In May 2021 her curatorial debut “Here, There, Nowhere”, with all Maldivian artists, was exhibited at Blak Dot Gallery (Melbourne). Kareen is a PhD Candidate (Fine Art) at Womenjika Djeembana Lab, MADA, Monash University.