Ruba Nadar's First Solo Exhibition at Pipeline's Visiting Curator Program

Ruba Nadar's first solo exhibition, 'I Saw Myself Playing on The National Team,' is on view through Pipeline's Visiting Curator Program. The London-based artist, born in 1998 to Lebanese and Egyptian parents, presents new mixed-media paintings and collages that explore identity through bricolage. Her work draws from vintage sports magazines, Egyptian cinema stills, family photographs, and inherited fabrics, guided by formal resonances rather than narrative. A key motif is sport imagery, referencing her teenage daydream of rowing for the Egyptian national team. The exhibition's title painting features hand-drawn pastel stripes in red, white, black, gold, and green, evoking a flag and unresolved belonging. Nadar treats image-making as gathering and reconfiguration, using tearing, stitching, stapling, and overpainting to create layered surfaces. The works resist fixed meaning, echoing Felix Gonzalez-Torres's idea of identity as a compilation of texts. The exhibition is curated by Andrew Price for Pipeline's Visiting Curator Program.