Nadia Younes

Graduate Exhibition

Graduate Exhibition Bezalel 2022 In her graduate exhibition at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the artist hangs a car body, or corpse, you may say from the ceiling of the institution in which she had just graduated from. The defiled car which holds a dissected masculinity, penetrates into Younes’s space, which is filled with water leaks and other thick liquids that reflect on each other through the mirrors hung in the space. Alongside with a screened video work “True Kaleidoscope” (05:20) which deals with the male gaze that women apply on themselves and is influenced by John Berger's eminent text. This video work explores the difference between art and pornography, while simultaneously recreating traumatic experiences - presenting insecurity, narcissism, and manic elements. All that in combined create an aggressive cosmos that holds an ambivalence towards its own existence.