Taïm Haimet
Her work insists on grief as an act of re-humanization, restoration, and a rediscovery of the sacred value of the human experience.
Drawing from Arab folklore, poetry and mysticism, she imagines spaces where these narratives can be honored symbolically and resonate within the contemporary Western World.
Coming from a theatre background, her practice borrows its codes in the staging of space and spoken narrative, and an importance given to the human voice as a medium in and of itself. Her questioning is often conveyed in narrative-based, multi-media installations.
She completed an Honours Degree in contemporary art in 2023 and a Masters degree in Creative practice in 2024, at the ATU Galway.
Awards include RDS Taylor Art Prize 2023, the ATU Excellence Award 2024 and the Galway Arts Centre Residency Award 2024.
Teaching Philosophy
My teaching philosophy centers the students as individuals with unique inner worlds, sensitivities, and aesthetic languages. They are encouraged to undo preconceived ideas as to what “good art” should look like, and trust themselves as original thinkers, makers, visual storytellers and decision makers. The class is seen as a laboratory where students allow themselves to experiment with concepts, materials, and learn to centre process as an adventure of self-discovery and skill gathering, rather than immediate outcome. “Mistakes”, accidents and the unpredictable are embraced as opportunities for resilience, progress, and potential poetic revelations.
Collaboration, peer-to-peer discussion and methods exchanges, are greatly encouraged as empowering ways to be in charge of one’s own learning, as an independent, autonomous and continuous process. Students are supported in developing critical thinking, and ways to consider their ideas and work in relation to art history’s context and contemporary global issues.