Dana Qaddah

Dana is an artist based between Turtle Island (Canada) and Lebanon. They reflect on contemporary socio-political conditions through the mediums of sculpture, photography, audio/video installation, writing and organising. The work is contextualised by themes of building from, and through, colonial legacies, environmental and economic deterioration, and the condition of abstracted from one’s own sense of self and place. In the studio, they compose archives of personal and itinerant cultural knowledge by collecting objects, packaging, videos, photographs, plants, writing, using their contexts to create socio-political commentaries. Through combining the use of found and fabricated materials, and storytelling in their public presentations, their practice challenges popular categories of artistic pursuit into personal, conceptually grounded work. 

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