Event overview
The Department of Art Public Talks Programme Spring 2019 welcomes artist Rosalind Nashashibi.
Has it happened to you that you start a conversation in one place—say, a city you came from or an exhibition on the next floor—and a few blinks of an eye later, you pick up the conversation in another place—maybe in this very room or in a city that doesn’t exist yet—with a different set of people? Faces might have changed, relationships scrambled, walls turned a different color, but the feeling of the conversation remains the same, a wondering trail, leaping across things we don’t know: destiny, time, desire.
“What happened in between?” you wonder, between the blinks of an eye.
In Rosalind Nashashibi’s world, a leap from one thought like this to another occurs as a shift of light, or as a dip of an eye scrolling for a footnote while reading. The blink is almost imperceptible. It happens, however, and you realize things have changed. Even if you may still be surrounded by the same group of people, a sudden collapse of distances or intimacies that once suspended a sense of communality has occurred. True, some folks or things may be missing, but the conversation continues
By exercising our freedom to belong in, or even peel away from, the multiple dimensions that make up the world, we can come to witness how predetermined our movements are, but also to acknowledge their possible reversibility.
Perhaps you realize that you never started this very conversation in the first place, neither did I. It might be a totally different conversation by now, it’s just the feeling that lingers and continues to connect
(Text by Raimundas Malašauskas)
Rosalind Nashashibi is a London-based artist of Palestinian and Northern Irish descent, who makes paintings and films, and teaches in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths.
Image: Courtesy the artist.
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Jan 2019 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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