Alyazia Al Nahyan UAE, b. 2000

Overview

Born in 2000, Alyazia Al Nahyan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dubai.

 

Al Nahyans practice draws from the foraging of found materials, plants, and herbs in her environment which undergo a layered procedure in the extraction of pigment and residual forms. Marked by an attunement to her changing surroundings and the transformative power of materials, her work explores different levels of abstraction to evoke nature scenes and landscapes without directly referencing them.

 

Her expanded paintings, reliefs and videos are process-driven, subject to experimentation and collaboration with non-human agents. She uses turmeric, rust, hibiscus, henna, neem leaves and diluted bleach to enable different tonalities and pigments to develop and change. Playing with the natural/artificial dichotomy her works are marked by the traces of materials in her environment and the chemical results of their decomposition. In this way, her materials index environmental change, coded by color. There is also a play in perspective in which the impressions made by materials at ground level are presented like top-down or drone-like landscape views. Al Nahyans methodology is both intuitive and exacting in rendering the materiality of a place, its memory retained as abstract residues and traces on raw fabric.

Works
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Rooted, 2023
    Rooted, 2023
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Tangled Roots, 2024
    Tangled Roots, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Sunward, 2024
    Sunward, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Skeletal Remains, 2024
    Skeletal Remains, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Ghost Town, 2024
    Ghost Town, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Untitled, 2024
    Untitled, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Lethal Greens, 2024
    Lethal Greens, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, To the Ground, 2024
    To the Ground, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Al Shreesh, 2024
    Al Shreesh, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Wasteland, 2024
    Wasteland, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Bitter fruit, 2024
    Bitter fruit, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Red Sediments, 2024
    Red Sediments, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Hostile Gathering, 2024
    Hostile Gathering, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Rooted, 2023
    Rooted, 2023
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Pitter Patter, 2024
    Pitter Patter, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Reminents of Summer, 2024
    Reminents of Summer, 2024
  • Alyazia Al Nahyan, Lethal Greens, 2024
    Lethal Greens, 2024
Biography

Alyazia Al Nahyan (b. 2000, UAE) holds a BFA  in Visual Arts from the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises at Zayed University, Dubai (2024). 

 

Al Nahyan’s practice explores the interplay between materiality and landscapes as a survey into collective memory, culture, and history. Her paintings emerge from fabrics naturally dyed with plants and objects unearthed in her site explorations. 

 

Her solo exhibition, In the moist breath of decay (20 Nov - 20 Feb 2024) was curated by Nadine Khalil at Iris Projects. Al Nahyan's group exhibitions include Narratives of Belonging (2024) in Al Safa Art and Design Library, curated by Hamda Al Falasi, among others and Above and Beyond (2023) curated by Maryam Ahli and Alyazia Al Falasi at Zayed University.

 

Alyazia Al Nahyan currently lives and works in Dubai, UAE.

 

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