Nadia Younes, an interdisciplinary artist of Palestinian-Russian descent from Israel, seamlessly weaves her rich cultural and academic experiences into her art, spanning painting, installation and sculpture. Her practice explores themes of confession, identity and the transitory nature of spaces, transforming stark, industrial materials including metal, resin and paint skin into living, visceral expressions. These works invite viewers to perceive spaces as more than structures, existing instead as bodies imbued with emotion and narrative revealing the unseen and overlooked, fostering conversations that bridge personal experiences with universal themes of impermanence and resilience.
Nadia’s work plays with the dualities of illusion and presence, using sculptural forms and trompe l’oeil techniques that elicit sensations of pressure, tension and gravity. This dynamic not only alters visual perceptions but also unsettles the viewer’s assumptions, underscoring the fragile nature of form and the fluidity of identity and borders. Nadia is drawn to the threshold between control and its dissolution – where precision meets entropy. In this transformative space, she explores how materials negotiate their own integrity, reflecting broader inquiries into belonging, alienation and transformation. By destabilizing familiar visual and material languages, her practice invites viewers to reconsider their perceptions, suggesting that both objects and identities exist in a continuous state of flux.