NAFYAR
NAFYAR
(they/them)
Nafyar is an artist based in Minneapolis whose work focuses on excavating colonial histories and pasts. They are interested in post-colonial theory and media, particularly from Africa. They are inspired by Third World Cinema, anti-colonial literature, and Sufi poetry. They create large-scale oil paintings and drawings while working intuitively and meditatively to process the experiences that have shaped their existence. Their work contemplates their familial nomadic past while living in an imperial capitalistic present. They use reference images from colonial pasts and neocolonial futures/presents and combine them with the images that appear in their subconscious and familial photographs. They have been a part of the Stay Human exhibit and the Undergraduate Scholarship exhibit at the Quarter Gallery in Regis West.
