SARA NAIM

b. 1987, United Kingdom

Sara Naim Biography

Sara Naim is a Syrian artist who grew up between Dubai and London. Naim is primarily concerned with the notion of boundaries as points of connection rather than markers of division. Her practice moves from magnified cellular abstractions of skin to sculptural formations that comment on the nature of time.

Interrogating different modes of seeing the invisible, her work explores the tenuous line that divides interiority from exteriority, addressing the question: How can borders be constituted on a macro-level when they do not exist on a cellular scale?

Examining borders in this way, her work envisages a collective space that deconstructs separations—between country and territory, skin and surface, pleasure and pain. Experimenting with the idea of duality, different dimensions and mediums coexist; photography is sculptural and sculptures are painterly.

She received her MFA in Fine Art Media at The Slade School of Fine Art, London (2014), completed her Bachelors in Photography from London College of Communication (2010) and Art Foundation at Chelsea College of Art (2007).

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Sara Naim’s website can be found here, and his Instagram can be found here.

Text courtesy The Third Line

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Representative Artworks

Sara Naim, 'Ard (2022). Exhibition view: 2023 Taoyuan International Art Award Exhibition, Taoyuan Arts Center (21 March–30 April 2023). Courtesy Taoyuan International Art Award.
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Exhibition view: Sara Naim, Building Blocks, The Third Line, Dubai (16 January–27 February 2019). Courtesy the artist and The Third Line.
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Sara Naim, Island Scene (2021). Plexiglass, C-type digital print, wood. 121 x 112 cm. Edition of 1 + 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and The Third Line, Dubai.
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Sara Naim, Down by the River Scene (2021) (detail). Plexiglass, C-type digital print, wood. 99.2 x 88.5 cm. Edition of 1 + 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and The Third Line, Dubai.
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Exhibition view: Sara Naim, Rose Tinted, The Third Line, Dubai (12 May–8 July 2022). Courtesy the artist and The Third Line.
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Sara Naim, Island Scene (2021) (detail). Plexiglass, C-type digital print, wood. 121 x 112 cm. Edition of 1 + 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and The Third Line, Dubai.
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Exhibition view: Sara Naim, Building Blocks, The Third Line, Dubai (16 January–27 February 2019). Courtesy the artist and The Third Line.
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Sara Naim, Table Scene (2021). Plexiglass, C-type digital print, wood. 157 x 114 cm. Edition of 1, 1AP. Courtesy the artist and The Third Line, Dubai.
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Sara Naim in Ocula Magazine

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Conversation Sara Naim: Reality Beyond Rose-Tinted Lenses Jareh Das Sara Naim discusses memory, perception, and her utopic images that probe the space between reality and representation.

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