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ARTIST PROFILE DECLARATION APRIL 21st – SEPTEMBER 9th ICAVCU.ORG #DECLARATION #ICAVCU Installation view: Nidaa Badwan, One Hundred Days of Solitude; Autumn Knight with Nontsikelelo Mutiti, La-a Consortium, Waiting Room, partial view. Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond, Virginia, 2018. Photo: Terry Brown NIDAA BADWAN Nidaa Badwan created her photographic series, One Hundred Days ON VIEW N Of Solitude were produced in her 100-square-foot room in Gaza, in One Hundred Days Of Solitude; Code:3, 2014 the Palestinian territories. She confined herself at home for more C-print, edition 3 of 4 than 20 months, transforming her space into both sanctuary and studio. In her isolation, she created drawings and textiles, covered One Hundred Days Of Solitude; Code:4, 2014 O the walls with pattern and color, and rearranged elements to stage C-print, edition 3 of 4 a series of photographic self-portraits. Withdrawing from a I conflicted external context, she produced lush, quietly defiant One Hundred Days Of images of her own alternate reality. Solitude; Code:6, 2014 C-print, edition 3 of 4 T The series’ title evokes Badwan’s process as well as the magical One Hundred Days Of realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel 100 Years of Solitude Solitude; Code:16, 2014 (1967). Although she photographed in solitude, Badwan initially C-print, edition 3 of 4 circulated these images via social media, crafting a dispersed One Hundred Days Of A community of support. Solitude; Code:19, 2014 C-print, edition 3 of 4 All works courtesy of the artist R and Postmasters Gallery, New York LOCATION Gallery 4 A True Farr Luck Gallery RELATED PROGRAM L STAFF PICK Susan Norkus Membership and Development Coordinator C May 24th, 2018, 12:30 Nidaa Badwan, One Hundred Days Of Solitude; Code 1, 2014.
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