• LOOP Barcelona 2024
    Rosalind Nashashibi

    The Invisible Worm
    19 - 21 November 2024

    Almanac Barcelona, 619-621, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, L’Eixample, Barcelona (ES)

  • Originally made for the exhibition O Rose at Den Frie in Copenhagen (DK), featuring Marie Lund and Rosalind Nashashibi, The Invisible Worm is a funny and serious film with spontaneous moments of joy, physicality and thinking aloud. The subtext of the film is the artists’ personae and how artist friends lean in to one another, leading to both innocent and corrupted effects. Nashashibi’s long term collaborator Elena Narbutaitė is the film’s protagonist and co-writer, and other artist protagonists include a male model, Nashashibi’s teenage son Pietro and a cat called Aloysha. Marie and Rosalind appear, as do their works, their studios and the galleries of Den Frie.

  • William Blake’s poem The Sick Rose from 1794 is a recurring text throughout the film. The invisible worm appears itself, at first as an embarrassing ‘hair in the gate’ stuck on the surface of the 16mm film, then mutating into an animated worm. It can be read as a note of corruption entering on multiple levels, that of the individual through over-awareness through the creative process itself, at the level of late capitalist society when the worm travels across the temptingly glamorous images of a fashion magazine and finally with the worm penetrating UK Parliament building at Westminster, highlighting the ongoing imperialist actions of the British political establishment, a three-fold face of corruption.

     

    Rosalind Nashashibi is nominated for the 2024 edition of The Film London Jarman Award. On this occasion, The Invisible Worm will be showcased in venues across the UK until 1 December 2024

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  • About the Artist

    Courtesy of The National Gallery, London (UK), 2020

    About the Artist

    Rosalind Nashashibi’s practice encompasses filmmaking, painting, printmaking, and photography. Capturing fleeting, dream-like moments, her approach to image making encourages intuitive connections. Nashashibi’s imagery cannot be placed definitively, allowing for numerous associations to be conjured. Rosalind Nashashibi was a Turner Prize nominee and had her work presented in documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens in 2017. Nashashibi became the first Artist-in-Residence at the National Gallery in London (UK), after the program was re-established in 2020. She was the first female artist to win the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2003.

    Currently Nashashibi has duo exhibition with Elena Narbutaitė: TO DIE FOR at GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) on view until 23 November 2024. Rosalind Nashashibi is nominated for the 2024 edition of The Film London Jarman Award with The Invisible Worm, which will be showcased in venues across the UK until 1 December 2024.

    Selected collections: The National Gallery, London (UK); Tate Britain, London (UK); The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US); Centre Pompidou - Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris (FR); British Arts Council (UK); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US); Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris (FR); The Art Institute of Chicago, IL (US); Kunsthaus Zürich (CH); National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (UK); Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (UK).

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