Wedding at Qana

Commissioned by The French Academy in RomE

Commissioned by Villa Medici, Wedding at Qana directly references the story in the Gospel of John in which the first miracle attributed to Jesus Christ takes place—when he turns water into wine.

Nasser invites viewers to consider the natural landscape of Qana with its well-recognized counterpart imageries by using frottage to mark the fabrics with the rock formations leading up to the cave where the water was gathered. This process allows the fabric to capture the truth of the Holy Land, whereas the layered and entangled fabrics reflect the convoluted nature of the magic of faith and its current material realities. It is this dynamic between the fabrics which serve as evidence that histories and myths are specific and indivisible.