Nadia Haji Omar
Nadia Haji Omar's paintings and works on paper explore the intersection of language and abstract painting. Inspired by an ongoing research of scripts that include Sinhalese, Tamil, Arabic, and French, her intricate imagery combines inventive linguistic characters with references to landscape, mapping, and textile patterning. Haji Omar received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2014 and a BA from Bard College. Her works have been discussed in New York Magazine/Vulture, and Hyperallergic, among other publications, and are included in the collections of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, the Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO, and Art in Embassies, US Department of State, Permanent Collection, US Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka, among others.
Nadia Haji Omar’s work ش (sh) was one of four paintings constructed with one single Arabic alphabet letter in the center of an endless field of dots and lines. Embedded and camouflaged but still legible, this work seeks to challenge how we read and see both pattern and language. The purpose of the repeated pattern is to lend an aural and vibratory element to the otherwise static background of written text. The alternating direction of some of the dots and lines create an additional interference. The script is visible because it is made up of lines and dots stacked in the opposite direction of the elements around it. Conjuring the body and language simultaneously, I hope to evoke the idea of the necessity of both to validate and enforce one another. The entire painting is made solely of tiny parts, much like our bodies, the natural world and everything in the known universe.
娜迪亞·哈吉·奧馬爾的繪畫作品和紙上作品探索語言和抽象繪畫的交匯點。受到僧伽羅語、泰米爾語、阿拉伯語和法語在內書寫系統的啟發與持續研究，她的圖像精細，將創新的語言字符與對景觀、地圖和紡織圖案的引用相結合。哈吉·奧馬爾於2014年從視覺藝術學院獲得MFA學位，以及從巴德學院獲得BA學位。她的作品曾在《New York Magazine/Vulture》和《Hyperallergic》等出版物中討論，並被收入RISD博物館（位於美國羅得島普羅維登斯）、霍爾馬克藝術收藏館（位於美國堪薩斯城）、以及美國國務院藝術項目的永久收藏中，其中也包括美國駐斯里蘭卡科倫坡大使館的永久收藏等。
娜迪亞·哈吉·奧馬爾的作品〈 ش (sh)〉是四幅以單一阿拉伯字母為中心的畫作之一，置於沒有盡頭的點與線之中。將字母嵌入並偽裝，但依舊清晰可辨，這項作品目的在挑戰我們對模式和語言的閱讀和觀察方式。重複的圖案為靜態的文字背景增添聽覺和振動元素，一些點和線交替方向的排列創造了額外的干擾效果。這些字體之所以清晰可見，是因為它們由反向排列的線條和點組成。召喚身體和語言的同時，我希望喚起這樣的理念：兩者相互驗證和執行的必要。整幅畫完全由微小的部分組成，就像我們的身體、自然界和已知宇宙中的一切一樣。
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Nadia Haji Omar’s work ش (sh) was one of four paintings constructed with one single Arabic alphabet letter in the center of an endless field of dots and lines. Embedded and camouflaged but still legible, this work seeks to challenge how we read and see both pattern and language. The purpose of the repeated pattern is to lend an aural and vibratory element to the otherwise static background of written text. The alternating direction of some of the dots and lines create an additional interference. The script is visible because it is made up of lines and dots stacked in the opposite direction of the elements around it. Conjuring the body and language simultaneously, I hope to evoke the idea of the necessity of both to validate and enforce one another. The entire painting is made solely of tiny parts, much like our bodies, the natural world and everything in the known universe.
娜迪亞·哈吉·奧馬爾的繪畫作品和紙上作品探索語言和抽象繪畫的交匯點。受到僧伽羅語、泰米爾語、阿拉伯語和法語在內書寫系統的啟發與持續研究，她的圖像精細，將創新的語言字符與對景觀、地圖和紡織圖案的引用相結合。哈吉·奧馬爾於2014年從視覺藝術學院獲得MFA學位，以及從巴德學院獲得BA學位。她的作品曾在《New York Magazine/Vulture》和《Hyperallergic》等出版物中討論，並被收入RISD博物館（位於美國羅得島普羅維登斯）、霍爾馬克藝術收藏館（位於美國堪薩斯城）、以及美國國務院藝術項目的永久收藏中，其中也包括美國駐斯里蘭卡科倫坡大使館的永久收藏等。
娜迪亞·哈吉·奧馬爾的作品〈 ش (sh)〉是四幅以單一阿拉伯字母為中心的畫作之一，置於沒有盡頭的點與線之中。將字母嵌入並偽裝，但依舊清晰可辨，這項作品目的在挑戰我們對模式和語言的閱讀和觀察方式。重複的圖案為靜態的文字背景增添聽覺和振動元素，一些點和線交替方向的排列創造了額外的干擾效果。這些字體之所以清晰可見，是因為它們由反向排列的線條和點組成。召喚身體和語言的同時，我希望喚起這樣的理念：兩者相互驗證和執行的必要。整幅畫完全由微小的部分組成，就像我們的身體、自然界和已知宇宙中的一切一樣。
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