Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Dalia El Toark

Growth I (Back)

Mixed Media
2020
Embroidery on Canvas
9 in W /9 in H /0.5 in D
00:00:05 [hh:mm:ss]
Still Image of Animated Gif

“I disseminated criticalities through combining the digital with the handmade in order to create a narrative that ties aspects of my Identity and personal experiences of living in diaspora. Stretched on Aida, I document the back side of the hoop, which exposes what is commonly hidden, the uneven hanging threads which narrate a different view, the side in which expresses a chaotic, yet growing and adaptive individual in diaspora. ”

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Growth I (Back)
Growth I (Back)

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Dalia El Toark

Multi Media artist

“My work depicts a series of abstracted animated embroideries that reflects my sense of diasporic belonging, through digitally combining Palestinian tatreez, and personal images which occupy the...” [More]