Nour Malas

SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

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SAIC SHOWS 2022 GRADUATE EXHIBITIONS

Master of Fine Arts in Studio, Sculpture

Nour Malas is a Syrian-Canadian artist currently based in Chicago. She completed an MFA in sculpture at SAIC, Chicago and received her BFA at Goldsmiths University, London. Having also grown up in the United Arab Emirates, Malas’s practice is influenced by the multiple cities and cultures that were a part of her upbringing.

Malas’ work appeared in a number of group exhibitions in Chicago, Dubai, London and Greece. Her first solo exhibition ‘Desperately Discontinuous Bodies’ took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2019.

Deconstructed BLT, Onsite installation, 2021, Toast, bacon, lettuce, tomato, rope, and pegs

Won't Give Up My Lemons, Time-based installation, 2021, Pistachio shells, ceramic lemons, Degas ballerina, and steel

Spinning Feast, 2020, Oil and pastel on linen, 50 x 40 in.

Cat Caught in Headlights, 2022, Oil and pastel on linen, 50 x 40 in.

Green Trunk, 2022, Oil on linen, 36 x 36 in.

Having called several cities ‘home,’ Malas attempts to find comfort in the mundane. Her work uses humour, absurdity and vulnerability to depict objects and experiences in everyday life. It can be simple, sometimes obviously so. Malas approaches her work in a way to help make better sense of the complicated confrontations of placeless-ness, nonlinearity and instability. She conveys ideas of what it’s like to be in a body and within a space, by making work that quite literally relates to her own body; its gestures, its scale, and its preconscious memories.

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