Rosalind Nashashibi grew up in Croydon, a large town in South London, then moved north to study art. At Sheffield Hallam she studied painting but switched to film after graduation, which she used to address complicated topics. In 2015, for instance, Nashashibi filmed powerful scenes of domestic life in Gaza. In 2017, the same year she was awarded the Turner Prize, she traveled to Panajachel, Guatemala, to document the artist Vivian Suter’s everyday life in the jungle. In 2014, however, Nashashibi again picked up a paintbrush, experimenting in soft colors. As the critic Quinn Latimer has written, her paintings “move easily between biomorphic abstraction and figuration, something organic and aching, the pastoral and the social.” This exhibition displays Nashashibi’s recent series “Hooks,” which plays with monograms and mirroring.
—Elena Clavarino