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01. God’s Eye Sees AllLiquid emulsion on mixed media,
Publication2023 - 2024
God’s Eye Sees All is a visual and material project exploring the subversion of public and private realms through the introduction of aerial imaging technologies during the first Gulf War. Aerial perspectives lensed by emerging technologies, such as GPS and satellite imagery, functioned to reaffirm the universalising imaginary perceiving desert lands as dead and empty, contouring and flattening the land and its situated cosmologies.

The project returns to these desert lands along the Kuwait-Iraq border, rearranging found stones, corrugated metal, discarded door frames and other loose materials into a carpet- the focal point of Arab domestic life. The composition of the carpet explores the symbiotic relationship between these contested landscapes and the homes that carry their stories, reflecting upon interpersonal processes of collective remembrance, family histories, and their subsequent presentation of history as a symbol of memory. Found materials within the composition are photochemically hand-printed using liquid light emulsion, in collaboration with Kuwait City-based darkroom Studio Khemia’e.


The following stage of this project centres the Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum, formerly a family home that now stands as a memorial ground for martyrs of the first Gulf War. The home bears the scars of the battle that took place inside, on February 24th, 1991, and has been left untouched since then. The still-images captured draw parallels between the visual and material identities of the natural and built environment and the people that inhabit them; between landscapes, maps, homes, decay, and re-birth.





02. Sonduke MagazineArt Direction, Styling2024
Manuka Honey wears Therese Raffoul for  Sonduke Magazine’s inaugural issue.




03. GQ Middle East: Sounds of KuwaitArt Direction, Photography2023
Commissioned by GQ Middle East to tell the stories of Kuwait-cultivated artists, centering their sounds within the lanscapes that shaped them.




04. Metamorphoscapes:  Edgware Road in Lumen PrintAlternative Printing2024Using the lumen method of printing through sun exposure on silver gelatin photographic paper, the material compositions depicted draw from visual notes taken along Edgware Road, a site of significance in my transition from life in Kuwait to London.

The road exists as an in-between realm for London’s Middle Eastern and North African communities, lined with countless shops, market stalls, restaurants, and community centres that offer the sensations of a past home in the presence of a new one. As a resident of Edgware Road for my first three years in the U.K, the road has served me as a space of reconciliation with complex feelings of identity, departure, and transition.




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3asal MagazineIndependent Print Publication2019-2022
3asal, meaning honey in arabic, is a print publication launched independently as a celebration of  women of the SWANA region. Each 3asal issue centres visual and written works from women artists and writers across the region and the diaspora beyond.

Operating from 2019-2022, 3asal was produced in Kuwait and distributed to retailers and readers around the globe.





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  ABOUT



Taiba Al Nassar is a visual artist and researcher based between London and Kuwait. Taiba’s interdisciplinary practice engages material research, alternative photographic processes, and other artistic methods to explore the relationship between contested landscapes and their situated stories. Navigating multiple geographies, Taiba’s practice draws from localised knowledge systems and counter-hegemonic archives to address environments altered by coloniality, and the peoples and processes positioned within them.

 

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