Navine G. Dossos
Navine G. Dossos was born in 1982 and is based on Aegina, Greece. She works with painting and geometric abstraction, merging traditions of Islamic art with algorithmic and informational systems of the contemporary world. Her practice often takes the form of collective workshops and public commissions. She has realized projects with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Towner Eastbourne, the Athens Biennale, the Istanbul Design Triennale, EVA International, and the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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2018-2020
gouache on watercolor paper, archive with source material
Collection of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
With thanks to Stephanie Kirchgaessner, the Centre for
Investigative Journalism, Anushka Asthana and Phil Maynard
(Today in Focus podcast), The Guardian
A closer look at these colorful, decorative paintings reveals familiar symbols of companies, currencies, states and organizations, including a WiFi sign, the Turkish lira, and the UN logo. Dossos made this work in response to the mysterious murder in Istanbul in October 2018 of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a victim whose killer has disappeared and whose body has never been found. The investigations that followed opened a unique door onto internet espionage, cyber weapons, state surveillance, and journalism. Each gouache is both an image in itself and a key to a specific media article that Dossos collected. After looking at the work, visitors are invited to follow the elaborate investigations on the central computer. Clicking on a pattern leads to an index that tracks the extensive implications of this terrible crime.