New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester:The States of Things - Rosalind Nashashibi

Artist Talk: Thursday 7 October at 19.00


A recent acquisition in the collection at New Walk Art Gallery, through the Contemporary Art Society’s acquisition scheme, The States of Things is the first moving image work to enter the collection and will be a key work in future developments.

Artist Rosalind Nashashibi won the 2003 Becks Futures Prize with her black and white film work, The States of Things. This quietly observational film presents a slice of British life in an unfamiliar way with an evocative soundtrack by Egyptian singer, Um Kolsoum.

This major new purchase for Leicester Arts & Museums Service is shown with a series of photographic works recently produced by Nashashibi in Cairo. These works relate to the film This Quality also by Rosalind Nashashibi which is being screened at Phoenix Square, Leicester as a short film screening with Made in Dagenham between Friday 15 October and Thursday 28 October. The film is presented courtesy of LUX.

Rosalind Nashashbi will be talking about this and her more recent work on 7 October 2010, for more information please click here.

This exhibition coincides with the opening of Epoch by Gerhard Richter, part of the Artist Rooms series supported by the Art Fund. For more information please click here.