Artists
Dala Nasser
- Born 1990 in Tyre, Lebanon. Based in Beirut, Lebanon.
As a material-based artist working through abstraction and alternative forms of image-making, Dala Nasser applies an interdisciplinary approach through painting, performance, and film. Nasser’s works examine the human and non-human entanglement in the perpetually deteriorating ecological, historical, and political conditions resulting from practices of capitalist and colonial extraction. Through her indexical paintings of land, and in opposition to the sweeping vistas offered by traditional landscape painting, Nasser’s canvases provide close-up views of the markings of political and environmental erosion. She has produced a body of work that takes the non-human as a witness to ecologies of slow violence, colonial theft and infrastructural failure in times where human language has been rendered out of reach.
- Selected Works
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- 2023
- Solo Exhibition, Adonis River, Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
- 2023
- Sharjah Biennial 15, UAE
- 2022
- 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
- 2022
- The Dead Shall be Raised, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- 2022
- Solo Exhibition, Red in Tooth, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
- Adonis River
- 2023
- Commissioned by the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, with support from the Graham Foundation and Maria Sukkar; courtesy of the artist