In Conversation with Rema Ghuloum

Tabari travels (digitally, this time) from Dubai to Los Angeles to visit painter Rema Ghuloum, whose studio in California is the serene heart of one of the most softly radical practices in contemporary abstraction today. This episode goes right into the spiritual impulse of her practice. Rema practices Vipassana and reiki practitioner and engagement with Buddhism filters into her studio in ways that are structural, woven into the pace and parameters of how she paints. 

Our conversation turns toward the personal foundations of the work, the loss of her two sisters and how abstraction became the place where grief and joy, pain and beauty, could exist together without the demand for resolution. 

Tabari is excited to share the meditative world of Rema Ghuloum in this podcast.