Alla Abdunabi (b. 2001, Freiburg) is a visual artist working in sculpture and installation.
Her practice explores the material afterlives of objects, presented through a mode of storytelling that merges the auto-ethnographical, historical, and fictional. What begins as a tactile engagement with an object evolves, inevitably, into an intangible negotiation with its narrative construction. Moving between the roles of caretaker and aggressor, Alla reorganizes the form of a thing, inducing it to speak across time, to the needs of the present. Naturally, her position within the Libyan diaspora and her movements between the global north and south, often surface in her work, mirroring the shifting trajectories of the objects and histories with which she engages.
