Salonnièr #5: 14-21 September
Nadia Adina Rose
What is unseen is not necessarily absent
Artist Talk: 20 September at 19:00
Nadia Adina Rose
What is unseen is not necessarily absent
Artist Talk: 20 September at 19:00
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Throughout the residency, Nadia Adina Rose continues to explore the interplay and significance of the interweaving between her two creative fields: sculpture and poetry. She is interested in the way in which we construct a complete narrative from fragmentary information, and explores the tension and gap between the representational sign (the supposedly familiar and known) and the imagined Whole that is constructed around it. She examines the elusive moment in which a sense of certainty arises, despite the possibility that it is nothing more than an illusion.
Countless possibilities arise from fragments of information. What is unseen is not necessarily absent. Its absence opens a space for imagination, conjecture and interpretation. Nadia observes the human need to cling to familiar systems of signs: to recognise patterns, find connections, construct a narrative. It is a constant endeavour to impose order and logic and to create a sense, however fleeting, of certainty. This is also how our sense of time operates. At any given moment, we experience only the present, whilst the past and the future exist in memory, imagination and anticipation. We connect moments, complete sequences and invent what we cannot see. This tension, between the visible and the complete, is the focus of Nadia’s research, expressed visually through three-dimensional forms made of fabric and iron wire. The forms are edges, fragments and marks situated on a shared plane, hinting at the possibility of the whole of which they are composed. Do they enter the shared plane or emerge from it? Are they traces of movement or interrupted forms? Perhaps they are body parts, roots, plants, branches in the snow, fragments of letters? Perhaps something living that has been buried, or perhaps something seeking to emerge. Thus, the forms freeze the moment when recognition emerges, but understanding remains incomplete. At this moment of limited vision, imagination opens what cannot be seen. |
Nadia Adina Rose: Artist and poet.
As an artist, she creates textile and multimedia installations that transform deeply personal experiences into landscapes. Her work explores themes of immigration, wanderlust and the transition between countries and cultures.
Writing in a language that is not her mother tongue, she interprets the environment as signals, hieroglyphs and secret codes that transmit information. Consequently, her works take the form of asemic writing, where text is shaped by intuition.
She holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (1994) and an MEd in Art Education from the Midrasha School of Art at the Beit Berel Academic College (2012). Her work has been exhibited numerous times in Israel and around the world, including at the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, the Wilfrid Museum (HaZore’a), the Museum of Philistine Culture (Ashdod) and the Eretz Israel Museum (Tel Aviv). Nadia-Adina has won awards both as a visual artist and as a poet who has published several books of poetry.
As an artist, she creates textile and multimedia installations that transform deeply personal experiences into landscapes. Her work explores themes of immigration, wanderlust and the transition between countries and cultures.
Writing in a language that is not her mother tongue, she interprets the environment as signals, hieroglyphs and secret codes that transmit information. Consequently, her works take the form of asemic writing, where text is shaped by intuition.
She holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (1994) and an MEd in Art Education from the Midrasha School of Art at the Beit Berel Academic College (2012). Her work has been exhibited numerous times in Israel and around the world, including at the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art, the Wilfrid Museum (HaZore’a), the Museum of Philistine Culture (Ashdod) and the Eretz Israel Museum (Tel Aviv). Nadia-Adina has won awards both as a visual artist and as a poet who has published several books of poetry.