BLIND DATE 2.0
ALIA FARID, DANIELE GENADRY, BAYAN KIWAN, FARAH AL QASIMI, TALA WORRELL
Blind Date 2.0
March 13 – July 17, 2024
beirut
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Tala Worrell (*1991 in New York, USA, lives and works in Los Angeles, USA) is a Lebanese-American painter who grew up in Abu Dhabi. Through her abstract, gestural, paintings she negotiates the relationships between various parts of herself: “East and West, religious and secular, familial and individual, and psychological and somatic”. Worrell uses the intensity of daily life and the impact of noise and imagery around her to produce non-figurative paintings: her work is all about shapes and colors that reinterpret feelings provoked by ordinary encounters. Using anything she can lay her hands on, she paints fields of colors juxtaposing intense hues with chia seeds, flour, lace, or any other material that allows her to express her inner feelings.