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Nasser Alzayani

  • Projects
    • Wardat al-Mustashar, or The Adviser's Flower
    • Watering the distant, deserting the near
    • Yateem Excavation
    • Ope, there goes gravity
    • Yaffa Cakes and Other Britishisms
    • British Club Tattoos
  • Research
  • Info
    • Bio/Contact
    • CV
    • Tear sheets

In conversation with Anita and Sarah from Khosh Bosh

April 09, 2022

From Khosh Bosh on Instagram:

“This week Anita and Sarah are joined by artist and SEAF studio manager, Nasser Alzayani (@nasseralzayani). Tune in to hear Nasser talk about why objects in museums make him sad, how he occasionally causes cultural emergencies at the Louvre and what the poisonous Wardat Al Mustashar represents for him.”

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February 15, 2021

On Friday, 27 November of 2020, Abu Dhabi’s skyline underwent a drastic alteration. This change cannot be described as anything but an erasure, wiping clean a remnant of the past, a reminder of recent economic failures.

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February 15, 2021
Digital surrogates
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Digital surrogates
May 14, 2019

In consultation with archaeologists, I learned the most practical way of documenting these fragile tablets was through 3D imaging and scanning. These ephemeral objects could be preserved indefinitely in a digital form.

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May 14, 2019
Boy sees newspapers with Diana's face and learns about death
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Boy sees newspapers with Diana's face and learns about death
March 11, 2019

My father has an obsession. Unlike his addiction to cigarettes, which he has now quit after a heart attack in January 2017, he still orders every printed newspaper on our tiny island home of Bahrain. It is rather surprising, but nevertheless indicative of diverse popular thought and opinions, that there are twelve printed daily newspapers in a country with a population of approximately 1.5 million. The number of people inhabiting my archipelago of just under 300 square miles is never exact and not always true. The area of land is also inaccurate and likely to increase with future land reclamation projects. Half of the dailies are printed in Arabic, two in English, and four in Malayalam.

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March 5, 2019
The Sound of the Desert
March 5, 2019

The desert is the setting for an orchestra of the wind. No woods or brass here, the instruments are your ears. Stand facing the oncoming gusts and you are greeted with an almost constant whooshing sound. Stand perpendicular to its direction so that the wind blows into your ear, and the sound is almost completely drowned out, lacking the turbulence and vibrations it caused about your cartilage.

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March 5, 2019