https://ramaghanem.cargo.site ramaghanem Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:28:31 +0000 https://ramaghanem.cargo.site en https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/home Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:21:03 +0000 ramaghanem https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/home things tearsheets about Rama does things. She thinks and writes for cultural institutions and audacious brands.  https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things Tue, 13 Feb 2024 05:47:59 +0000 ramaghanem https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things commercialcriticalcuratorial https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things-commercial Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:20:27 +0000 ramaghanem https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things-commercial As the sole English-language copywriter for AKQA’s regional network at the time, Rama tinkered with big words and bigger ideas—penning campaigns, brand voices, and pitch wins across fashion, tech, luxury, and culture. Loewe x On step into natureReimagined performance footwear as a sensorial journey into the clouds.Dysonpioneering firsts Scripted hero films aligning Dyson’s innovating ethos with the ambition of pioneering Khaleeji women.Jumeirah a dream that lives forever Crafted a narrative arc for the Marsa Al Arab pitch, conjuring a world of intangible luxury. Glitchunleash the extra in you Authored the brand guidelines for a youth-focused gaming and entertainment concept, articulating its high-energy voice. https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things-critical Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:28:31 +0000 ramaghanem https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things-critical Engaging with the ideological work of archives, Rama’s critical practice insists on a structure for something indefinite, absurd and slippery, hoping to see the ways image, language, and memory systems resist closure. Some of this unfolds in a long-term research project about her family's entanglement with the looting of Palestinian heritage and the transfer of archaeological objects from the West Bank into the collections of religious institutions and museums across the United States. This birthed several episodic moving image works, including I’ll Send You The Pictures (2024) and Material Witness (2025). Understanding the archival photograph as both document and process, these works attempt to encounter an image that does not reflect the past, but actively participates in its unfolding. They’re part of a larger imaginary architecture: a subaltern site where those who look can revise limits imposed by time, power, and authority. In Common Desire (2020), another archive-oriented project, desire, war and image are entangled together in an anthology of video works appropriating digitized films to point to cultural transformations and revolutions that apexed during the Lebanese Civil War. The public domain image leans into entropy as it chooses, collapsing mythologies, and building new ones around the interpretive axes of a historical moment. https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things-curatorial Sat, 21 Jan 2023 08:06:54 +0000 ramaghanem https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/things-curatorial These things are under construction.But you can read about her curatorial work in the press while you’re here. https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/tearsheets Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:23:33 +0000 ramaghanem https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/tearsheets Rama’s institution-affiliated projects have been featured in regional and international press. e-flux columbia class of 2025 thesis exhibition columbia class of 2025 first-year exhibition Columbia Archiverama ghanem awarded ircpl research fellowship Campaign Middle East creative faces to watch Voguewhat to see around the world Gulf Newsit’s about lberating women’s experiences Artforum editor’s pick Blind Magazine the cost & power of women’s bodies https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/about Thu, 21 Sep 2023 03:01:37 +0000 ramaghanem https://ramaghanem.cargo.site/about Rama Ghanem (b. 1998) is a creative writer, cultural strategist, and artist. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts, with a concentration in Moving Image, from Columbia University. She’s an alum of the Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship and a former research fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Her long-term project—on the displacement of archaeological objects from the West Bank to American museums has been exhibited and screened at St Moritz Art Film Festival (2024), Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery (2024 & 2025) and LeRoy Neiman Gallery (2025), among others. She earned her BA (hons) in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Rama has also curated several group and solo exhibitions centering lens-based practices, featuring artists Lara Chahine, Palash Bhattacharjee, Tanya Habjouqa, Shumon Ahmed, Reem Falaknaz and Munem Wasif, among others. Her parallel work in editorial, cultural programming, and communications spans a network of regional institutions and international brands. She has collaborated with teams at 421 Arts Campus, Afikra, Alserkal Avenue, Art Dubai, Bangladesh Art Week, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Google Arts & Culture, Ishara Art Foundation, Italian Cultural Institute Abu Dhabi, RAK Art, and Reel Palestine. As a creative writer at Ogilvy, a leading global communications and design agency, and formerly at AKQA and Havas, she shaped narrative strategy and brand voice for clients including across luxury fashion, culture, technology and entertainment.