° 1979
Born in Cairo (Egypt), lives in New York (United States), lives in Cairo (Egypt).
Iman Issa’s practice seeks to pick out experiences of the personal from the collective. Her narrative-based works function through taking stories out of the specificity of a context, and opening them up to the associative potential of the viewer. Combining sculpture, photography, text, sound and video, Issa wishes to privilege the subjective, giving deliberate anonymity to the places, events and characters she portrays, allowing people to bring something personal to these things that seem as though they come from elsewhere. The components of her installations are characteristically both abstract and familiar – an aesthetic facet that forms a sort of democratic offer for producing new narratives. (NH)
>IMAN ISSA, Material, 2009-2012.Installation, mixed media, variable dimensions.
>IMAN ISSA, Thirty-Three Stories about Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places, 2012.Installation, c-print, video, mixed media, variable dimensions.
> Exhibition: Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics. 13 June 2014 - 14 September 2014.