Article: American-Palestinian Artist Jordan Nassar Examines The Crossovers of Culture, Identity and Tradition
Following his first exhibition in the Middle East at The Third Line, New York-born and based Palestinian artist Jordan Nassar talks to Katrina Kufer about orienting his practice around tatreez, giving back, and amending political views from an experiential standpoint
The crossovers of culture, identity and tradition resonate within artist Jordan Nassar. A second-generation American whose Palestinian family immigrated to New York in the early 1920s and quickly assimilated into their new home, Nassar admits internalising a pronounced struggle about political and cultural perspectives. “I felt conflicted because I grew up in a Jewish neighbourhood with specific understandings, but at home, my father, a psychiatrist, had been doing human rights work dealing with PTSD in the West Bank since the 1990s,” he says. “I was confused because I had two sets of information presented to me and it was hard to navigate.”
