Bouthayna Al Muftah

Bouthayna Al Muftah is a Qatari visual artist that received a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Qatar. Upon her graduation, Al Muftah focused her artistic practice in printmaking, typography, documentation and artists' books, which evolved into multiple installations. Her artistic approach draws inspiration from cultural heritage borrowing elements from the people of Qatar's oral history and folklore.

Al Muftah's fascination with her surrounding context has led her to develop strong interest in the life in the old neighborhoods of Qatar and its people. As an approach to reconstruct past experiences into contemporary settings, she often finds characters and stories to transform in her own world. She gradually turned to book binding as a way to express her inspirations and themes in the form of conceptual documentation of the past, whilst simultaneously deconstructing and rediscovering elements in an abstract style.