Gravity and Grace - Dana Dawud
Gravity and Grace
Dana Dawud
Opening:
25.9 18:00
Open Saturdays and Sundays for four weekends.
13:00-15:00
25.9-18.10.2026
K4 presents video works by Dana Dawud. Dawud explores the restless life of images online: how they are made, shared, copied, fragmented, and transformed. Rather than treating filmmaking as a controlled, linear process, Dawd embraces its more fluid and unpredictable possibilities, moving freely between cinema, visual art, music, writing, and online presence.
Collaboration and collective production are at the heart of Dawud’s practice. In works such as the Monad series, she passes scripts, images, or loose instructions between artists and online collaborators, allowing each participant to reinterpret and reshape the material. Repetition never produces an exact copy: gestures shift, voices change, and something of each individual enters the image. Chance, improvisation, and loss of control consequently become generative forces. Dawud’s role is less that of a director controlling the final image than a curator of conditions, creating a space in which multiple versions, voices, and identities can emerge.
Visibility and concealment run throughout Dawud’s work. Blurred faces, anonymous figures, selfies, and endlessly circulating images evoke the peculiar tension of a culture in which we are constantly watching and being watched, performing ourselves while trying to retain some control over our visibility. The works enter an environment of surveillance, advertising, architecture, and everyday life, opening up a new encounter between the unstable visual world of the internet and the physical space of the city.
Bio:
Dana Dawud is an artist and writer whose work moves between cinema, the archive, sound, and the internet.
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