Abdulaziz Alrabea is a Kuwait-based artist and lab technician at Studio Khemiae, a community darkroom dedicated to analogue photography and alternative printing processes. His artistic practice revolves around film photography and material-based techniques such as cyanotype, Van Dyke, and liquid emulsion printing. With a background in Mechanical Engineering from Glasgow, Abdulaziz merges technical precision with poetic experimentation, building a practice that is both tactile and conceptually grounded.
His work often explores the fragility of memory, cultural rituals, and the emotional resonance of archival materials. Drawing on personal and found imagery, he creates prints that blur the line between preservation and decay, documentation and distortion. Whether working with hundred-year-old film negatives discovered in antique markets or developing prints on fragmented glass and fabric, Abdulaziz treats the photographic surface as a space for reflection, transformation, and storytelling.
Since 2023, he has been leading workshops at Studio Khemiae, sharing alternative processes with a growing local community of artists, students, and photography enthusiasts. Beyond teaching, he helps organise exhibitions, film screenings, and cultural gatherings that reframe analogue photography as a living, communal, and experimental medium.
His work has been exhibited at spaces including the Abdullah Al-Salem Cultural Centre (ASCC), where he participated in the Creative Printing Conference 2024 as a guest artist. Abdulaziz was a participating artist in the SADI 2025 Ancestral Bonds exhibition with a project titled Tales in Stone—an installation inspired by storytelling elements found in Sadu weaving craft, reimagined through a contemporary lens.
Abdulaziz’s practice continues to evolve at the intersection of material process, cultural heritage, and intimate narrative, seeking new ways to make visible what is fading, fragile, or forgotten.