FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ROSALIND NASHASHIBI CHARMER

March 8 through April 8, 2006
Opening: Saturday, March 11, 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10 - 6

Harris Lieberman is pleased to announce the opening of Rosalind Nashahibi’s

Charmer, her first solo exhibition in the United States. A graduate of Glasgow
School of Art, Nashahibi has exhibited extensively in Europe, including recent
solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Basel, CCA, Glasgow and Lightbox Tate Britain.
In 2003 she was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures Prize.

Nashashibi’s work investigates micro-societies and contemporary myth making,

blurring the line between the invented and the real. Her deliberate and nuanced
films are visually compelling with an emphasis on framing, pattern and rhythm.
Charmer will include three film-based works and a series of new photographs.

Hreash House (2004) follows three generations of a Palestinian family living on

the edge of Nazareth in an ever-expanding concrete block of their own
construction. The film presents a lifestyle that seems alien to the Western idea
of a family unit. Instead, it is closer to the ancient model of the family as a
tribe or community unto itself. Hreash House documents the communal activities
and everyday rituals of the Hreash family as they prepare for, enjoy, and relax
after a Ramadan feast. Nashashibi allows us a glimpse of Palestinian life from
the perspective of a small but highly organized social nucleus, thereby
undermining the stereotypes shown in the media.

Eyeballing (2005) was made during Nashashibi’s recent Scottish Arts Council
Residency in Manhattan. In this 16mm film, the artist finds elements of human
faces in the inanimate objects and architecture of an unfamiliar city. Nashashibi
juxtaposes these face-monuments with the archetype of city authority: the New
York City Police Officer.

In Adrian Noble Rehearses the RSC in Measure for Measure (2006) Nashashibi
presents found television footage of an 80’s theatre rehearsal to show the energy
conjured by group interpretation, and the uncanny sight of actors slipping in and
out of character. As with all the films, Adrian Noble Rehearses… further reveals
the artist’s interest in the exchange between the quotidian and the glamour of
mythology.

In a series of new works, found images extracted from the artist’s collection are
re-photographed, enlarged and organized into tight associative sequences. They
expand the themes of role playing, ritual, face organizing and archetypes found
in the film and video works.

On March 20 at 8 pm, Nashashibi will give a talk on her work at the Museum of
Modern Art as part of their MediaScope series.

Harris Lieberman is located at 89 Vandam Street, between Hudson and Greenwich.

The nearest subway stops are Houston Street on the 1 line and Spring Street on
the C and E lines. For more information please email gallery@harrislieberman.com
or call 212.206.1290.