Alia Hamaoui
Magic Eye-The Mirage, Towelling and cotton print, foam, Ply, 2019
Seeing Double Arslan Tash, Dyed sand, plywood, acrylic paint, 2020
Stacked to Calypso Deep and A Tyrian Totem, Plaster, dyed sand, PVA, spray paint, glass wax, burger boxes and steel, 2020
Stacked to Calypso Deep, Plaster, dyed sand, PVA, spray paint, glass wax, burger boxes and steel, 2020
The Lost City I, MDF, filler, plastic plant, plaster, acrylic, mesh, soap, 2019
To Perish Like the Petals of Floured Dishcloths I (Detail), Steel, dyed sand, plaster, orange sacks, spray paint and digital print on fabric, variable dimensions, 2020
To Perish Like the Petals of Floured Dishcloths I and II, Steel, dyed sand, plaster, orange sacks, spray paint and digital print on fabric, variable dimensions, 2020
Bio
Alia Hamaoui (b.1996) is a British/Lebanese artist based in London. Her practice combines sculpture, image-making and painting. Hamaoui received her BA (Hons) Painting from Camberwell College of Arts in 2018.
Alia Hamaoui’s multidisciplinary practice weaves together layered fragments, muted tones and lost histories. A combination of print, painting and ‘construction’; Hamaoui’s work embodies a shift from physical remnants of the past to the digitising of memories. Her practice explores how images, both printed and digitised are intercepting our perspective on historical narratives and the exotic. She is interested in cultural spaces that we use to escape our everyday. She thinks of them as self explorational spaces, where people try to identify or link themselves to some form of their own cultural identity.
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Selected Projects
DKUK (Solo Exhibition) (London, 2021, Upcoming)
Springboard (Solo Exhibition) CSG, Camberwell College of Arts (London, 2019)
Alia Hamaoui, Artist in Residence (Solo Exhibition) Peckham Artist Run (London, 2018)
HOUSE §1 (Group Exhibition) Collective Ending HQ (London, 2020)
Ancient Deities (Group Exhibition) Arusha Gallery (Edinburgh,2020)
Spring Season (Group Exhibition) Fieldworks (London, 2020)
Begin Again (Group Exhibition) Guts Gallery (London, 2020)
The Potion Room (Group Exhibition) Subsidiary Projects (London, 2020)
Exeter Contemporary Open 2019 (Group Exhibition) Exeter Phoenix (Exeter, 2019)
I Could Go On Forever (Group Exhibition) PADA/YNG SPC residency (Lisbon, 2019)
ABSINTHE §1 (Group Exhibition) Spit and Sawdust (London, 2019)
Raiders of the Last Art (Group Exhibition) Lewisham Arthouse Gallery (London, 2018)
Autumn Showcase (Group Exhibition) Hannah Barry Gallery (London, 2018)
The World Tour (Group Exhibition) Fivehundredthousand Gallery, Art Licks Weekend (London, 2018)
Extended Call, PT3 (Group Exhibition) Subsidiary Projects (London, 2018)
Extended Call, PT2 (Group Exhibition) The Parasite, Royal College of Art (London, 2018)
Camberwell Fine Art Degree Show (Group Exhibition) Camberwell College of Arts (London, 2018)
Extended Call, PT1 (Group Exhibition) Phone boxes in Soho (London, 2018)
Hung out to dry (Group Exhibition) Bomb Factory (London, 2017)