In my work, I transform intimate interiors into psychological landscapes where colour and form become builders of parallel universes. My figures often depict solitary women rendered in suspended gestures, occupying spaces that oscillate between comfort and captivity.
Everyday objects—a chair, a rose, a cat, or a window—become silent witnesses to the tension between belonging and estrangement.
Through bold hues and surreal distortions, I explore how environments—both physical and emotional—shape the self. Works such as “Prisoners”, “Take Me Off Your Mailing List”, and “Dinner Table For One, Please” reveal the contradictions of confinement: isolation intertwined with self-preservation, melancholy with humour. My architectural background informs these compositions, each one a study of structure, memory, and fragility.
Emerging from Sudan’s shifting socio-political realities, my visual language speaks to the universality of longing and resilience. The figures I paint, with their exaggerated eyes and fluid figures, invite viewers to confront discomfort while recognising fragments of their own reflection.
In these constructed rooms, confinement becomes not merely a state of being, but a space for reimagining freedom, intimacy, and the possibility of imagination.
Reem Aljeally is a visual artist and curator with an educational background in architecture. Her artistic practice focuses on painting, installation, and printmaking exploring themes of space, memory, movement, and self-image. She has exhibited internationally in Germany, Spain, Russia, Portugal, The United States, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa. In 2025, Reem received the 2nd place runner up for the ANNA Award by Latitudes Online. Aljeally is the founder of The Muse Multi Studios (2019) and The Sudan Art Archive (2022), aiming to support, promote, and preserve visual arts in Sudan.