Dala Nasser (*1990) explores artistic forms of expression through abstraction and alternative forms of pictorial design.

Dala Nasser (*1990) explores artistic expression through abstraction and alternative forms of image-making. Although her practice encompasses sound, performance and film, she remains a painter at heart, thinking specifically through this medium and its most basic materials: fabric, pigments, stretcher frames, lines. Using an indexical method based on direct contact with the material on site, Nasser fundamentally questions the representational conventions of expansive landscape representation. By considering materials as witnesses, she has created a comprehensive body of work that focuses on unacknowledged histories, the ecologies of insidious violence, colonial robbery and the failure of infrastructures in times and spaces where human language has become insufficient or inaccessible. For her first exhibition in Switzerland at Kunsthalle Basel, Nasser is planning a reconstruction of the Byzantine church of Kabr Hiram in Qana, Lebanon - a site that no longer exists, in a landscape that is considered inaccessible. As part of this project, she is working with cyanotype-treated textiles for the first time, making spaces that were thought to be lost tangible.