Cemetery of Martyrs is a major new co-commission by Beirut and London-based artist Dala Nasser, produced in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary and KM21, The Hague, Netherlands. Nasser’s new body of work comprises a canopy of dyed and marked fabrics, layered and draped over a site-specific wooden structure and an accompanying text work.
Nasser’s work explores history, displacement and community through a relationship with abstraction and alternative forms of image-making. She integrates sound, performance and film in her work, but remains quintessentially a painter, working with the medium’s most elementary materials: fabric, pigments, stretcher bars and mark making.