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  • Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Filwa Nazer, In The Fold, 2019

    Filwa Nazer

    In The Fold, 2019
    Cotton wadding and mull/tarlatan
    300 x 260 cm
    Courtesy of the artist
    b. 1960, Beirut, Lebanon; lives in Montreal, Canada Filwa Nazer is a Saudi Arabian multimedia artist. Having started her creative journey as a fashion designer, her current practice ranges from...
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    b. 1960, Beirut, Lebanon; lives in Montreal, Canada

     

    Filwa Nazer is a Saudi Arabian multimedia artist. Having started her creative journey as a fashion designer, her current practice ranges from digital print, collage, and textiles, to appropriation of photography. Her work centers around questioning emotional and psychological identity in relation to spatial and social contexts.


    Nazer’s work In The Fold  is interested in mutability, drawing parallels between mimicry and camouflage in the insect world and the way human beings adapt socially, assimilating with different groups for good or ill. The work is inspired by French intellectual, sociologist and critic Roger Caillois’s research where he likens the ways certain insects use camouflage as a defense tactic to the psychotic who is unable to determine her or his own location in space. Using cotton fabrics that vary in their transparency and stiffness, including tarlatan and cotton wadding, the installation is aesthetically inspired by the anatomy of insects that mimic their environment and are found in Saudi Arabia such as the Blue-shinned grasshopper and the Oleander Hawk-moth; as well as pattern lines from traditional garments. 


    Nazer has participated in a number of international exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in France (2022), the Diriyah Biennale in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (2021), “I Love you Urgently" in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2020), "In - Between" as part of March Project residency at Sharjah art Foundation in Sharjah, UAE (2019).
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