Rosalind Nashashibi

Rosalind Nashashibi currently works and lives in London, UK. She has received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK). She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Nashashibi’s practice, comprised of filmmaking and painting, chronicles intimate moments of contemporary life across diverse circumstances with a deeply empathetic and personal approach. In both her films and paintings, one piece often permeates into the next one, creating an ongoing dialogue between bodies of work. Nashashibi is able to capture different kinds of relationships through the minutiae of her subjects’ lives and the lived environment. Her films are often non-linear, punctuated by manifestations of power dynamics and the subtext of individual and collective histories.

In Electrical Gaza (2015), Nashashibi combines her footage of Gaza, and the fixer, drivers and translator who accompanied her there, with animated scenes. She presents Gaza as a place from myth; isolated, suspended in time, difficult to access and highly charged.