Navine G. Dossos
Navine G. Dossos (b. 1982, London) is a visual artist working between London and Athens. Her interests include Orientalism in the digital realm, geometry as information and decoration, image calibration, and Aniconism in contemporary culture.
She has developed a form of geometric abstraction that merges the traditional Aniconism of Islamic art with the algorithmic nature of the interconnected world we live in. This is not the formal abstraction we understand from the western history of art, but something essentially informational, and committed to investigation and communication. Dossos is a painter, and uses this medium and its history to ask fundamental questions about the ways in which we see, understand, and, crucially, represent the world around us. Her work suggests that contrary to the mediatic impulses of the present, we must not rely upon, nor constantly reproduce, the figurative language of television, online media, videos, and the endlessly circulating images which shape our shared imagination of reality. Rather, she is invested in the discovery of a new language which better reflects the patterns and connections that underlie these images and their related experiences.
Highlights
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Pool Paintings Part I, Swimming Pool, Sofia
2018 Shoot The Women First, The Breeder Gallery, Athens
2017 A Year Without Movement, House of Saint Barnabas, London
2017 Echo Chamber, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2017 Infoesque, Fridman Gallery, New York
2016 Command: Print, Nome, Berlin
2016 Imagine A Palm Tree, Benaki Museum Islamic Art Collection, Athens
2016 The Black Standard, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2015 ψ, Fokidos, Athens
2015 Komt Hier Aan Deze Gele Vlaktes, Probe Projects, Arnhem
2014 Pre-Image, Peninsula Art Space, Red Hook, New York
2014 Sucker Scar Script, Crowell Fine Art, New Bedford MA
2013 So Much Magic, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
2012 Where Are You Know?, Project D / Capital D Studios, Dubai
2008 Pale The Wall, Leighton House Museum, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Universe Flickers, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul
2018 A School of Schools, 4th Istanbul Design Biennial
2018 Walk and Talk Festival, San Miguel, Azores
2017 And its Periphery Athens in Regards to Contemporary Painting, The Breeder Gallery, Athens
2017 Haunted Machines and Wicked Problems, Impakt Festival, Utrecht
2017 Future Climates, State of Concept, Athens
2017 Evidentiary Realism, Fridman Gallery, New York
2016 Yes Screaming No, The One Minutes, Amsterdam
2016 Sorry You Missed Me, Royal College of Art, London
2016 Letters to the Mayor: Athens, Storefront NYC/Metamatic:taf Athens
2015 Art In The Age Of …. Asymmetric Warfare, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2015 Art In The Age Of …. Planetary Computation, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2015 The Girl With The Sun In Her Head, Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
2013 Watching You, 10011, New York
2012 Modes ottomanes: la gravure de l’Orient au Siècle des Lumières, Bibliothèque d’Amiens, France
2010 A Journey into the World of the Ottomans, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Remote Materialization
September 2018 ~ Curator Laura U. MarksPublications and Exhibitions
2018 SHOOT THE WOMEN FIRST! Under the Pink of Navine G. Khan-Dossos’s Targets, by Jasmina Tumbas
ASAP Journal
2017 Painting On and Painting Off ISIS Propaganda by Régine Debatty
WeMakeMoneyNotArt.com
2017 An Unfolding Interface by Natasha Hoare
Commissioned for Evidentiary Realism, curated by Paolo Cirio, Fridman Gallery NYC
2017 Interview: Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Aude Launay
Zerodeux.org
2017 Painting The Islamic State, by Helen Longstreth
PostMatter.com
2016 Information Acts: Navine G. Khan-Dossos in conversation with Stephanie Bailey
Ibraaz.org, Platform 10 – Where To Now?
2014 For The Motherboard by Vanessa Hodgkinson and James Bridle
The White Review, October 2014
2013 Techno-Primitivism by Vanessa Hodgkinson and Prof. David Trotter
The White Review, May 2013
2013 The Inkhorn and the Last (The Etymology of Technological Vocabulary)
by Vanessa Hodgkinson and James Bridle
JAWS Journal, Chelsea College of Art and Design