Nahal Bahrman

Feeling and looking with the sensitive eye of an artist, I always see the magic surrounding, between and emerging from us.

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As a wanderer, painter and illustrator, I draw from my experiences of embodying multiple cultures and languages, having lived in many parts of the world. I use image as a language to create a narrative that transcends the barriers of knowing a specific language or occupying a determined location. Figures float in liminal space where patterns ruminate as a contemplation of place making. My process for image making is intuitive as I build each layer of my images by adapting and reacting to a transforming picture plane. As a migrant this process aptly reflects the ways in which I interact with my surroundings, resiliently finding a home in people. Taking an autotheorocratic approach, repetition and seriality is a means to establish a visual vocabulary between cultures while allowing past, present and future to exist simultaneously. Betweenness inspires my work as it is an honest position to represent people. I present subjects in flux, encountering hope and despair, confidence and doubt, movement and stillness and innocence. I depict figures as a contemplation of identity in relation to location, my subjec...

I have a master degree in Illustration.

2022, July 19 to August 5, 2022, IMPACT 2022, Toronto

2022, June 25, Exhibition, Etobicoke Arts Festival, Etobicoke

2022, May 9th - 29th, Exhibition, Overzealous, Art Space Connect Gallery, Toronto

2022, April 28th - May 20th, The unit 6th projects, Toronto