Alia Farid’s multidisciplinary practice sees the artist use video, drawing, installation and public intervention to explore various issues which habitually go unnoticed. Drawing upon her observations of her two countries of origin, Kuwait and Puerto Rico, she interrogates the impact of complex colonial histories, the influence of modern politics, the persistence of tradition and strategies of survival in the global south.  Farid sees her practice as a subversive strategy for rendering visible narratives which are obfuscated by hegemonic power. In 2014 the artist curated the Kuwait pavilion at the Venice Biennale of architecture, tracing a century of Kuwaiti modernity, shaped by the discovery of oil. Following the biennale, the project continued with an informal school emergent from the conversations that took place during the presentation, with a focus on the social and political potential of architectural spaces and environments.