Surface Works, 2015-2019
works displayed at various group shows
Inspired by land art, textiles, and craft, Nasser’s practice finds its starting point in an event from which the fundamental subjects are reduced to conceptually representative materials, reworked to form both the surface and content of each work. Inspired by the writings of Jane Bennet and Robert Smithson, her aim is to shift the focus from the agency of the human artist to the non- human materials themselves recognizing the active participation of things in events. The defiance in her work of the conventional conceptions of painting is clear, yet the works’ respective purposes reveal themselves in their materiality, and the processes in which they interact with one another changing their form and appearance over time.