Fatima Al Qadiri

Born in Dakar in 1981 into a Kuwaiti family, Fatima Al Qadiri grew up in Kuwait before pursuing her studies in the United States, a path that directly traverses her work as a producer, composer and conceptual artist. Her music sits at the crossroads of experimental electronic, ambient, deconstructed grime and textures reminiscent of film music, with a marked taste for cold atmospheres, transformed voices and Gulf-related cultural references. She emerged in the early 2010s under the name Ayshay with several EPs, including Warn-U in 2011 and Desert Strike in 2012, before releasing the album Asiatisch in 2014 under her own name on Hyperdub, followed by Brute in 2016 and Medieval Femme in 2021. Fatima Al Qadiri also develops collaborative and transdisciplinary projects, notably within Future Brown, whose self-titled album appeared in 2015, and within the GCC collective, active in the field of contemporary art. Her compositions often dialogue with questions of power, representation, memory and identity, without abandoning a precise, minimalist and often spectral sonic writing. This trajectory also led her toward film scores, with Atlantique in 2019 and La abuela in 2021.