Rosalind Nashashibi

British Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi (1973, United Kingdom) is a painter and filmmaker. Nashashibi is deeply interested in the act of looking, observing the world in a way that almost merges her with her subjects. Her films chronicle intimate moments of contemporary life across diverse circumstances with a deeply empathetic and personal approach. References to artists such as David Hockney and Edgar Degas, as well as filmmakers like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Chantal Akerman, can be found throughout her work, creating a rich dialogue with art history.

Her films are often non-linear, punctuated by manifestations of power dynamics and collective histories. Subjects have included non-nuclear family structures, the multiple personae of the artist and chronicling Palestinian life.  In her painting, sentimental or overbearing motifs such as a pair of swans or a ‘X’, intrigue us into looking at them anew, and her references to historical paintings become a way of revisiting the past and transforming it into fresh experiences for the present.