A unique opportunity to watch Rosalind Nashashibi’s new film The Invisible Worm in this special event
The Invisible Worm (2024) is both funny and serious, with spontaneous moments of joy and physicality. Featuring Marie Lund and Rosalind Nashashibi, the film is driven by both artists’ personae and the specific kind of friendship that can exist between artists, leading to both innocent and corrupted effects.
William Blake’s poem 'The Sick Rose' (1794) is a recurring text throughout the film. The invisible worm appears itself, at first as an embarrassing ‘hair in the gate’ stuck on the surface of the 16mm film, then mutating into an animated worm.
Nashashibi’s long term collaborator Elena Narbutaitė is the film’s protagonist and co-writer, and other artist protagonists include a male model, Nashashibi’s teenage son Pietro and a cat called Aloysha. Marie and Rosalind appear, as do their works, their studios and the galleries of Den Frie.
Join Rosalind Nashashibi in this in-conversation as she talks through the creative process behind her work, touching on themes of imperialism, corruption and the artist self.
Biography
British Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973) is a painter and filmmaker. Her films chronicle intimate moments of contemporary life across diverse circumstances with a deeply empathetic and personal approach. In both her films and paintings, one piece often permeates into the next one, creating an ongoing dialogue between participants and bodies of work.
Nashashibi’s oeuvre is similarly imbued with precise references to the works of other filmmakers and painters— such as references to David Hockney, Pierre Bonnard and the filmmakers Alexander Kluge and Chantal Akerman. Her films are often non-linear, punctuated by manifestations of power dynamics and the subtext of collective histories. Subjects have included non-linear family structures, the multiple personae of the artist and chronicling Palestinian life.
Nashashibi received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK) after which she attended the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK) where she received her MFA. She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. She was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003. Nashashibi has had solo exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary (UK); Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR); Radvila Palace Museum of Art for CAC, Vilnius (LT); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); The High Line, New York, NY (US); Tate Britain, London (UK); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US); Imperial War Museum, London (UK); and ICA, London (UK).
