The South of Lebanon was under Israeli occupation from 1982 until the withdrawal of troops in 2000, during which water was pumped out of the Wazzani River and into their territories.

Surveillance systems are establishing a ubiquitous sensing environment around this river today, computing militant mobility and rendering any form of life a possible target. This monitoring and resource extraction enforce a toxic environment, seeping into the wildlife and the encompassing ecology.

Within this buffer zone of exclusion, a slowly unfolding violence is narrated by witnesses whose testimonies surpass language.

Dala Nasser (b. 1990) born in Tyre, Lebanon, lives and works in Beirut and London.

As a material-based artist working through abstraction and alternative forms of image-making, Dala Nasser applies an interdisciplinary approach through painting, performance, and film. Nasser’s works examine the human and non-human entanglement in the perpetually deteriorating ecological, historical, and political conditions resulting from practices of capitalist and colonial extraction. Through her indexical paintings of land, and in opposition to the sweeping vistas offered by traditional landscape painting, Nasser’s canvases provide close-up views of the markings of political and environmental erosion. She has produced a body of work that takes the non-human as a witness to ecologies of slow violence, colonial theft, and infrastructural failure in times where human language has been rendered out of reach.

Nasser graduated from Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, with a BFA in Painting in 2016, and then received her MFA from Yale School of Art, Yale University in 2021. Her work has been shown internationally, including her first US institutional solo at the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2023); Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing; Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses; Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023); 58th Carnegie International (2022); Kunstverein Koln, Cologne (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); BetonSalon, Paris (2019); Beirut Art Center (2017 and 2019); and Sursock Museum, Beirut (2016), where she was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at their annual Salon d’Automne.

Dala Nasser – Director
Jad Youssef – Cinematographer and editor
Mhamad Safa – Sound producer and composer
Jawad Al Amine – Guide and trap cam operator
Sabine Saba – Animator
Toni Geitani – Equipment
Marina Tebecherani – Color corrector
Rayyan Abdelkhalek – Translator
Leen Charafeddine – Title designer