Majdal Nateel
Palestinian visual artist and researcher
Majdal Nateel (Arabic: مجدل نتيل; born 1987) is a Palestinian visual artist and researcher. Her installations and paintings explore themes of war, siege, memory, and amputation, drawing on her experience of life in the Gaza Strip. She left Gaza in 2022 and lives in Sweden.
Early life and education
Nateel was born in 1987 in Saudi Arabia to a Palestinian refugee family and grew up in Gaza. She received a Bachelor of Arts in fine art from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza in 2009.
Career
Nateel had her first exhibition at the Shababeek for Contemporary Art space in Gaza. In her early works, Memory's Salt (2011) and The Impact of Light and Glass (2013), Nateel examined individual experience and its social reverberations. After the 2014 Gaza war her practice turned toward the human cost of recurring wars and the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Her 2014 installation If I Was Not There addressed children killed in Israeli bombardments, and her installation Without Coffins was shortlisted for the A. M. Qattan Foundation's "Young Artist of the Year Award" (YOYA), in 2014. Nateel's work, "Without coffins", was denied entry into the West Bank by the Israeli authorities, so a duplicate was made in Ramallah.
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