Kris Rumman is a Palestinian-American artist based in Ohio, working with glass to create sculpture, performance, and installations. Shaped by her diasporic perspective, her work explores “double vision,” using the lens to question and expose dominant hegemonic narratives, often addressing themes of home, impermanence, precarity, and surveillance. She frequently incorporates glass lenses and two-way mirrors to evoke authority and (in)visibility. Her work often is unfixed, acting as impermanent fugitives in search of belonging. Captivated by live observation, archival research and serendipity (inshallah), her work is migratory, situationally responsive, and inextricably linked to the geopolitics where she live and that of her ancestral home.
Image: Kris Rumman, Local, Walk (detail), 2020. Sumac, fennel, cumin, turmeric, paprika sand marked by audience. 10 x 15ft. Image courtesy of the artist.