Nadia Refaei
 ناديا الرفاعي


  1. Sabaar and Other Counter Archives
  2. A Whisper Echoes Loudest
  3. olive branch (curator)
  4. Thomas’ Garden (co-curator)
  5. Dawit Dersolign (co-curator)
  6. a garden for the things you love
  7. New Energy
  8. Roots
  9. Leading Letters
  10. Rehearsing the Future
  11. Making Ground (curator)
  12. Make Kabsah With Me
  13. 1998-2011 / ١٩٩٨-٢٠١١
  14. Both sides of either wall (co-curator)
  15. In Visible Woman
  16. Plastic Women

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Make Kabsah with Me


Commissioned for 4A Digital
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian ArtMake Kabsah with Me weaves together personal and broader narratives — situating our familial history of migration within the larger history of migration through West Asia, the complexities of the Arab cultural landscape and the immigrant experience in Australia. 

A traditional dish of the Arabian Peninsula, and a favourite food from my childhood, the evolution of kabsah acts as an indirect record of the impacts of colonisation, economic inequality and shifting borders. 
These fragments of conversation between me and my father, explore the role of daily and domestic rituals in mapping and archiving complex histories. This work is both a documentation and demonstration of how oral histories and ritual are used to pass on intergenerational memory, culture and knowledge.