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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Plastic Women


Top Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre
1 – 30 June 2019


Plastic Women explores how ideations of control and freedom are constructed and projected onto women’s bodies, particularly those outside our own cultural normality. Approaching this provocation from a Muslim/Australian perspective, this work questions culturally loaded symbols – hair, dress (or undress), and veiling. How much of our interpretations of these symbols depends on our cultural and historical perspectives? In a Western artistic context, can Muslim bodies be separated from politics and imperialist readings?
This work forms part of an ongoing practice investigating the importance of authorship and the role of power in creating alternative histories and cultural lenses through which to understand experiences of the body.

Plastic Women, 2019, pigment prints