Nadine Abdellatif is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Cairo, with roots in Egypt and Palestine. Her experiences growing up in the Middle East have shaped her as she strives to explore, critique, and tell stories of her past and cultural environment from the perspective of someone who has grown out of its tough shell.
Being an observer of these intensely charged political climates has revealed to her the importance of using her artistic voice. In such an oppressive environment where freedom of speech is almost fictitious, visual literacy and symbolism became useful tools to speak on what has been deemed forbidden. These realities have transformed her practice as she has become both an artist and a witness, attempting to understand notions of personal experience intertwined with history and ethics.
Through lens-based and mixed media practices, she explores themes of home, displacement, politics, and the experience of womanhood in the Middle East by experimenting with portraiture and the body in relation to its surroundings.