Nasrin Abu Baker is a Palestinian artist born in 1977. Nasrin Abu Baker is a versatile artist. Her work seeks to explore her identity and roots through feminist representation. She places the woman in a socio-political context usually absent in art. Woman is placed in the front and centre of her works, exemplifying strength and determination. She works with locally gathered materials and attempts
to create a dialogue between the local and the universal, mixing cultural symbols and peoples. In some of her paintings, she uses tar, in accordance with the German expressionist school. Nasrin intercedes in order to provide her own interpretation of images. All of the materials she uses represent her local community. Her paintings present the viewer with symbols lacking any actual source. A lack of knowledge about the identity of the figures amplifies feelings of peculiarity, isolation, and fear. She reinterprets and reformulates pictures and posters of Palestinian representation. Nasrin's works are created without perspective, without background, without frame, to produce detachment; an expressive response to the current political situation. Her ironic and perhaps bitter use of distorted characters, body parts and inarticulate curves in her paintings are done deliberately clumsy, in the style of Picasso. She examines the relationship between the strong and the weak, the victim and oppressor, the present and the absent. Nasrin Abu Baker Was born in Zalafa Village Near Um el fahem in 1977. She was awarded in Fine Art from Beit Berl college ( Hamidrasha school of Art ) in 2006. Nasrin Participated in several group exhibitions, projects and festivals: project "Piece of art – Peace of art", Hamburg, Germany, (2006). "Intensive care", Julie M. (2006). "see Not \Fear not", Um el fahem Art Gallery, (2006). “Pieta in office", office Art Gallery, Tel – Aviv, (2007). "Desert Generation", the Jerusalem artist house. (2007). project "Restrictions on freedom and movement", Ramallah. (2008) "29 Km", Um el Fahem Art Gallery, (2009). "International Art Symposium 2010" San Miniato, Italy,(2010). "neighborliness Christmas holidays” 2010, Haifa. (2010). "back and forth workshop" Art Symposium- Almahatta Gallery, Ramallah, (2011). “Spiracje Fedtival Der Sichtkunst” Bad Freienwalde, Germany, (2011). “Middle East Europe“ Dox center for contemporary Art, Czech Republic, (2012). Selected Solo Exhibitors: ”On This Earth What Make Life worth Living”, Ramat Gan Museum,( 2011). “The Present is Absent”. Um el- Fahem Art gallery, (2012). Awards: Award on behalf of Lottery Council for the Arts, the production of a solo exhibition and catalog, (2011).
