Natalie Hamada talks us through her solo exhibition of serigraphy prints, Tell all the truth but tell it slant, in Myymälä2 gallery in Helsinki, and meanwhile she tells us about her life in Syria, the war, and how she moved to Finland to study her master's in the art academy right when the country shut down for the first lockdown. We learn about her collage-style silk screen-printing technique, working with many layers and strong colours on different paper materials, and she explains how she mixes old family photographs with found images, working somewhere between memory and imagination, to create a new kind of photo album of familiar characters. We talk about the loneliness of moving to a new country on your own, studying and creating art in pandemic isolation, and how to integrate and establish a life after graduation. This episode contains the stark contrast between Natalie's delicate, colourful prints, and the heavy, dark experiences of living in an active war zone, and I am very grateful that she shared her stories with me and allowed me to share them with you.
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