Electrical Gaza

UK, Palestine | 2015 | 18 min | Experimental In Electrical Gaza, Nashashibi combines her images of Gaza and the repairman, drivers and translator who accompanied her there, with animated scenes. She presents Gaza as a mythical place; isolated, suspended in time, difficult to access and very intense. A film by Rosalind Nashashibi Rosalind Nashashibi is a London-based filmmaker and painter of mixed Palestinian and Northern Irish heritage. Her films use both documentary and speculative languages, where observations from her own life and the world around her are merged with paintings, fictional or sci-fi elements; often to propose models of collective living. Her paintings likewise operate on another level of subjective experience, they frame arenas or pools of potential where people or animals may appear, often sharing the picture plane with their own context of signs and apparitions that hint at their position vis a vis the artist. Nashashibi has shown in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah X, She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017 and won Beck’s Futures prize in 2003. She represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennial. Most recent solo shows include Vienna Secession, CAAC Seville, Chicago Art Institute and Kunstinstuut Melly, Rotterdam. She was a National Gallery artist in residence until 2020.