Scotland and Venice Biennale

Rosalind Nashashibi

Observation of group interaction and social rituals are the starting points for Rosalind Nashashibi, who uses primarily 16mm film. She is concerned with portraying the psychological atmosphere of locations and detecting subconcious projections. To do this she films scenes from reality, often filtered through the visual language of primitivism.

In 2003 she became the first woman to win a Beck's Future's award for her film The State of Things, which featured images of elderly women rummaging through piles of old clothes at a Salvation Army jumble sale, over the soundtrack of a traditional Egyptian love song.

Another, Dahiet al-Bareed, was filmed in a West Bank neighbourhood designed by her architect grandfather in 1956 and now located behind an army checkpoint. Rather than making any overtly political point, the film quietly follows aimless lives, young boys playing football; a bored child setting fire to a heap of rubbish.

In 2003 the first major solo exhibitions of Rosalind Nashashibi's work in the UK took place at the CCA in Glasgow and at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh.

Other recent projects and exhibitions include: (In 2006) Around the world in Eighty Days (Group exhibition), ICA, London; Momemtum 2006 (Group exhibition) Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway; Solo exhibition at Harris Liebermann, New York (In 2005) In Between Times (Group exhibition) Tramway, Glasgow; Eyeballing (Solo exhibition) Counter Gallery, London; (In 2004) Songs for home and economy (Solo exhibition), CCA, Glasgow; Solar Lunar (Group exhibition) doggerfisher, Edinburgh. Nashashibi is one of the recipients of the The deciBel Awards for Artists for 2006.

In 2007 she will be exhibiting work in a solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery London.

Born in Croydon in 1973, Nashashibi graduated from Sheffield University in 1995 then gained an MFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2000. In 2004 - 2005 she was based in New York undertaking the Scottish Arts Council New York Studio residency.

Rosalind Nashashibi is represented by:
doggerfisher/Susanna Beaumont
11 Gayfield Square
Edinburgh
EH1 3NT
Tel: +44 (0)131 558 7110
www.doggerfisher.com

and

Harris Liebermann, New York

For examples of her work visit the doggerfisher website