
Nadine Khalil
Writer and Editor at Freelance
I write, edit and pontificate on all things art-related for @canvastweet @oculaart
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3 weeks ago |
somethingcurated.com | Nadine Khalil
My encounters with the city of Vienna have always led me to performance, in a broad spectrum of this term. Over a decade ago, I was working for a men’s luxury magazine and I was invited to the opera ball, an annual event at the Vienna State Opera. Dancing debutantes, normally of upper-class heritage, waltzed in tiaras and white gloves, enacting highly choreographed gendered norms and social hierarchies.
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1 month ago |
frieze.com | Nadine Khalil
Jeddah was my entry point to the Saudi art scene. I began travelling there from Dubai in 2017 for 21’39 Jeddah Arts, an annual non-profit exhibition driven by private patronage and the curiosity of international guest curators, such as Venetia Porter and Vassilis Oikonomopoulos. Then, there was a palpable sense of discovery and a raw, experimental tone that thrived on the edges of a still-forming scene.
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1 month ago |
artdaily.com | Nadine Khalil
DUBAI.- The Mine is presenting Resonant Turns, a solo exhibition by Iranian-American artist Hadieh Shafie, held in Warehouse 46 at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Hadieh Shafies practice is a process-driven contemplation that uses ink, paint, and paper as material for works that abstract text into form, evoking a spectrum of optical perspectives. Her reliefs comprise circular or cone-shaped scrolls inscribed with Farsi poetry and her own writing in acts of concealment, fragmentation, and distortion.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
frieze.com | Nadine Khalil
This review is part of a series of Must-See shows, in which a writer delivers a snapshot of a current exhibition Showcasing women’s weaving traditions in Palestine as a living, material culture, Hayy Jameel’s latest exhibition, ‘Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine’, forms an ‘imperfect chronology’, according to curator Rachel Dedman, whose work with textiles from the region spans a decade. Indeed, with the exhibition's loose structure of dress clusters, the devil is in the details.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Gareth Harris |Aimee Dawson |Nadine Khalil
Given the contemporary biennial sprawl—hundreds of artists, even more artworks—curators understandably often opt for short titles. These are loose umbrella terms for a deluge of art-making: casually evocative, rarely foundational. Read the full 18-line titular poem for Sharjah Biennial 16, which opened on 6 February, though, and something altogether more compelling—more urgent—takes hold.
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