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In a new body of work, including paintings and a film in three parts, the first premiering in this exhibition, Rosalind Nashashibi explores affective relations and community building. These works follow a non-linear narrative that weaves various intimate settings, some within shared domestic spaces, others in outdoor environments. Shot in Lithuania, London, and Edinburgh, the film features the artist and her children, as well as close friends, which she considers extended family.
In the process of creating this new work, Nashashibi questions how a group’s sense of commonality is dissolved when there is an absence of communal experience and adherence to linear time. Through an open-ended discussion of space and time travel in the film, which is in part inspired by the creation and dissolution of group relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s The Shobies’ Story (1990), Nashashibi explores new modes of conviviality, considering the absence of having a nuclear family structure, without an imperative model in sight.
For years, Raimundas Malašauskas has collaborated with Nashashibi and is here the guest curator of the exhibition. He has remarked that Nashashibi’s work is the dip of an eye scrolling for a footnote while it reads. Writing about Nashashibi’s new work, Malašauskas points that “by exercising our freedom to belong in, or even peel away from, the multiple dimensions that make up the world, we can come to witness how predetermined our movements are, but also to imagine their possible irreversibility.”
Works
Audience with the King
Rosalind Nashashibi
2018
Oil on canvas
140 x 100 x 2 cm | 55 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 3/4 in
Fountain
Rosalind Nashashibi
2018
Pigment on paper
90 x 61 cm | 35 3/8 x 24 1/8 in
Fresh Fruits
Rosalind Nashashibi
2018
Oil on canvas
41 x 30 x 2 cm | 16 1/8 x 11 3/4 x 3/4 in
Girl with a Green Watch
Rosalind Nashashibi
2018
Oil on canvas
80 x 60 x 2 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 3/4 in
Indifference
Rosalind Nashashibi
2018
Oil on canvas
60 x 75 x 2 cm | 23 5/8 x 29 1/2 x 3/4 in
Red Wine
Rosalind Nashashibi
2017
Oil on canvas
75 x 60 x 2 cm | 29 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 3/4 in
South of France
Rosalind Nashashibi
2018
Oil and nylon tights on canvas
110 x 90 x 2 cm | 43 1/4 x 35 3/8 x 3/4 in
Untitled
Rosalind Nashashibi
2018
Oil and nylon tights on canvas
100 x 140 x 2 cm | 39 3/8 x 55 1/8 x 3/4 in
The Exiled Prime Minister’s Pond
Rosalind Nashashibi
2017
Oil on canvas
140 x 100 x 2 cm | 55 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 3/4 in
Artists
Rosalind Nashashibi
Rosalind Nashashibi (1973 Croydon, UK) is a London-based artist working in film and painting. Her films convey inner experiences of moments and events, often considering the politics of relations in the community and the extended family; while merging everyday observations with fictional or mythological elements. Like her films, her paintings move between impressions and more concrete depiction of forms or figures, where figuration may be an imported element from another linguistic order.