Samina earned her BSC in Culture and Politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, with a Certificate in Muslim-Christian Understanding, specializing in cultural anthropology, post modern philosophy and semiotics. She studied workshops at Teatro de los Sentidos in Barcelona where she learned the distillation of the senses, exploring corporal and sensorial communication, and the poetics of play and silence; and the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London where she learned the constructions of geometric, algorithmic art. In 2017, she was awarded a scholarship semester at the MFA program at Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem.
The essence of her work is rooted in deconstruction and an esoteric inquiry about inner journeys and transformations, inspired by the teachings of various masters of Sufism, Sacred Geometry, Kabbalah. As she seeks to unfold the conundrums of life into a landscape of magical realism, she finds her expressions through poetics, the development of theories, and mirrored installations.
Through her study of the senses, she also designs scenarios traversing the boundaries of theater, blurring the distinction between creator and spectators, and allowing viewers to become explorers. By using whimsical metaphors, she deconstructs through play.
Samina is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the internationally acclaimed collective and residency program, “the rabbit hole.” Embracing collaborations between artists of different mediums, she aspires to opens gateways and inspirations that expand the collective dialogue about wonderland.
The influence of her work is based on deep existential questioning, that extend passed the image and construct of the self. Born with Indian and Persian roots, a and having lived and worked in London, Barcelona, New York, Berlin, Istanbul, and Paris, picking up up various influences on the way, she strives to understand the mystical through the human condition. Her work has also been influenced by years of extensive travel projects, where she deconstructs myth and storytelling, immersing herself in local rituals and traditions of peoples around the world. Some have included the Peruvian and Colombia Amazon, the Masai Mara, Costa Rica’s jungle, the Jordanian desert, and Mediterranean Sea Ports.
She has been extensively commissioned by Adidas for her long term work, “The Crystal Express” with its several outputs. Her work has also been supported by The Rumi Foundation, Georgetown University, Mit Senselab, Fondazione Morra, The University of Naples, among others. She has presented her works at Pioneer Works, New York, The Chelsea Art Museum, Museo Hermann Nitsch, Sharjah Arts Museum, and in public spaces such as Estacion de Franca, Barcelona, PS1, New York, Berlin’s s U-Bahn, Istanbul’s Bosphorus ferry.
Samina is regularly invited to lecture in academic and art institutions - such as The University of Naples, IED Milan / Barcelona, Bezalel Academy of Arts - about deconstructive theory, her research methodologies, and her own theory called “topsy turvy consciousness” – a detangling approach to society’s constructs.