Fabric dyed in the wazzani river, tea, grandmothers couch, charcoal, ash, discarded fabric
70 x 50 cm
3 Unique pieces
Certificate
This year, Dala Nasser’s work was presented at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in her first institutional solo exhibition, Red in Tooth. The artist’s interdisciplinary work continually explores alternative forms of image creation and employs a range of materials that underline her deep engagement with decolonial ecologies and interconnections between the human and the non-human. In Dala Nasser’s recent work, a significant role is played by the transboundary Al Wazzani River, which flows through southern Lebanon into the Palestinian Territories. This life-giving border with its natural resources and wildlife is only partially accessible and in difficult conditions. In the course of the artist’s process-based work, paintings are buried in the earth around the Wazzani, washed with collected rainwater, or boiled in salt water. They are imprinted with a different memory, reality, and future: years of erosion, degradation, water loss, pollution, and increased salinity steeped in a history of natural life, exploitation, death, violence, and land grabbing.
Dala Nasser’s member’s editions have also been created in a similar process. The artist has combined the textiles dyed by the Wazzani with the fabric from her grandmother’s sofa, thus establishing a connection between her personal history and that of her native region.
Dala Nasser (b. 1990 in Tyre, lives in Beirut, Lebanon) recently participated in the 58th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, USA, and has had solo exhibitions at V.O Curations in London and Deborah Schamoni in Munich (2022 and 2021). She has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2022), Villa Empain in Brussels (2021), Beirut Art Center (2019), Bétonsalon – Centre d’art et de recherche in Paris (2019), Victoria Miro in London (2018), ACT2 at Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017), and the upcoming Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023).
Please specify your desired unique piece when ordering the item. Available pieces: 1, 3.
