Dia Batal: Between Lands and Seas

'Between Lands and Seas' is Dia Batalâ€™s first solo exhibition in Dubai; it features recent and never before seen artworks.

In this exhibition Dia Batal explores notions of belonging, identity, and what constitutes the meaning of home. Borrowing texts from poetry, literature, and narratives from her own family history, she investigates, using materials such as paper and metal, the meaning of home as an internal point of orientation.

The artworks also examine the significance of involuntary departures from a homeland, and what remains with us along those routes of departures. The exhibition features drawing, collage and silkscreen on paper, and sculpture in metal and is on view until April 18, 2018 at XVA Gallery in Dubai.

Dia Batal, Fragments of Being / Courtesy of XVA Gallery

Dia Batal, Between Lands and Seas / Courtesy of XVA Gallery

Dia Batal, Astrolabe / Courtesy of XVA Gallery

DIA BATAL

Dia Batal is a London based, Palestinian artist. Her work stems from socio-political concerns and cultural narratives from her surrounding environment. Her practice draws on the use of Arabic language, calligraphy, and script. Borrowing from that, and in specific context, she creates installations, objects and work on paper in a contemporary language. Diaâ€™s work has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions in London, Liverpool, Paris, Beirut, Amman, Dubai, Sharjah, Manama.