Rooting
BY Aude Nasr
These illustrations are about the feeling of loneliness that can affect some of us children of immigrants as times. As our identities are divided, and our families’ past in the homeland can be inhabited by the ghosts of war or disillusions, there is still, in some of us, a sort of longing for our homelands. So much relief can be found by building communities where we feel at ease with our paradoxes, and our belonging to a culture and/or another. It seems like rooting, then, becomes possible.
Born in the UK and currently living in Paris, Aude Nasr is a Lebanese-French artist whose practice focuses on photography, video and illustration. As many people in today's globalized world, her identity is held somewhere between the different places, cultures and other experiences that compose her. Her work intends to investigate the immateriality of space and belonging, and wishes to explore storytelling and it's possible relatability.
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@abdula.nasa, @ahlan.my.darlings, cargocollective.com/audenasr