Whose Father’s Name Matches My Father’s Name, 2016

Whose Father’s Name Matches My Father’s Name, 2016

Navine G. Dossos

The Remaining and Expanding series comes out of the artist’s ongoing research into Islamic State propaganda, and in particular its online magazine Dabiq. Thirty-six panel paintings are constructed from the design and layouts of page-spreads from one issue; transformed – in the absence of their controversial contents – into pure form and colour so the viewer can consider the structures rather than content of propaganda. In these works, the matteness of gouache paint, in a palette of CMYK and RGB, translates the qualities of screen resolution into an analogue surface.