NOME is pleased to present Navine G. Khan-Dossos’s second solo show at the gallery, which
coincides with the opening of our new space on Potsdamer Straße.
No Such Organisation (2018–2020) is a series of one hundred paintings that represent the
fallout from the assassination of Saudi-Arabian dissident, columnist, and news editor Jamal
Khashoggi in 2018. In Navine G. Khan-Dossos’s characteristically vibrant, aniconistic
painting style, the cycle of works, twenty of which are on display, chronicles the
repercussions of the event sequentially, through the journalistic and juridical investigations it
triggered. The artist perceived the case and its connected themes of cyberweapons, spyware,
and the contemporary stakes of journalism, as a kaleidoscope of tumbling details. And yet,
the case remains without a central visual figure, as Khashoggi’s body was never recovered.
Into this absence of images, the series deploys symbolic elements to stand in for players in
the story – nation states, agencies and technologies – which shift into new alignments with
each iteration, resisting final judgement.
Similarly relying upon a combination of structure, form and colour to express complex
narratives – and also organised by a 3x3 grid – Silent Latitude (2019) is a collaboratively
made quilt by many women in different places. The work began with a series of watercolour
designs produced in Athens with the Greek Transgender Support Association (GTSA), which
were then reworked and fabricated by the women of MIA-H, a Belgian textile workshop. The
title Silent Latitude refers to the poetry of Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century Flemish lay nun,
in lineage with the textile production of Beguine communities, as well as to the apparent
divide between the European North and South, the two sites of production of the work. The
quilt is co-owned by the artist and the GTSA, with any proceeds equally divided in
recognition of the shared labour. In both series, the individual squares may stand alone, and
also interact to form larger configurations of pattern and signification.

No Such Organisation

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