Nayla Dabaji
Photo credit: Ziad Bitar
Nayla is the mentor for you, if you are interested in: Video collage, installation, found footage, personal archive, migration, memory, poetry.
Beirut-born artist Nayla Dabaji currently lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. She creates experimental videos and installations that combine a variety of practices, ranging from photography, drawing to sound art and writing. She is driven by an interest in temporality and memory while exploring ways to document her creative process. Her video works are distributed by Videographe in Montreal. In 2020, she was the winner of the Impressions residency at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Her works have been presented at The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg (A-Model, MUDAM, 2024), at la Lumière collective (In situ series, 2023), at the MAI gallery (Montreal arts interculturels, 2022), Vaste et Vague (Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie, 2021), Dazibao (dv-vd, Montreal, 2017) and at several festivals – including: the international Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) (Montreal, 2022, 2017), les Percéides (Percé, 2021, 2018), le Festival de la poésie de Montréal (2020), Les Instants Vidéo (Marseille, 2019, 2015, 2014), the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (35th edition, Montreal, 2015), Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, 2015).
Her collaborative projects have also been shown in various galleries, institutions and art spaces – such as: Espace Libre (Biel), Vu Photo (Quebec City), Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), Artsonje Center (Seoul), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo). She studied fine arts in Lebanon (Diplôme d’études supérieures en Arts Plastiques, Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts), media arts in Quebec (BFA/Intermedia Cyberarts, Concordia University) and is currently studying herbalism (École FloraMedicina).
