Beyond Borders: Filwa Nazer

Filwa Nazer

Filwa Nazer (b.Swansea, United Kingdom) is a Saudi multi-media artist. She lives and works in Jeddah. Nazer began her creative journey as a fashion designer and graduated from Milan’s Marangoni school of Fashion and design. Her practice ranges from digital print, collage, textile to appropriation of photography and centres around questioning the emotional and psychological identity in relation to spatial and social contexts.

In her recent practice the artist employed textiles and sewing techniques as a medium to explore relationships between our bodies & the spaces we occupy, thus unveiling an intimate experimental process that reflects the tensions inherent in both.

Filwa participated recently in several exhibitions which include : “perceptible Ryhthms, Alternative temporalities“ Middle east Institute Washington (2022), La Biennale de Lyon, France (2022), Diriyah Biennale (2021), “Saudi Modern “ Jeddah (2021), “ Un Mundo De Retales “ Casa Arabe Madrid ( 2021 ), 2139 Saudi Art Council “I Love you Urgently “ Jeddah (2020), “ In Between “ as part of March, Project residency at Sharjah art Foundation in Sharjah UAE (2019).

Tactile Mapping, Untitled 3
Saudi Modern
Five Women, Diriyya Biennale, 2021
Five Women, Lyon Biennale
Five Women, Lyon Biennale

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