Biography
Talal Al Najjar is an Emirati artist based between Los Angeles and Dubai. His interdisciplinary practice moves through research, archiving and distortion — recontextualising material culture, artefacts and imagery through an absurdist lens that uses defamiliarisation and the uncanny to generate new anthropological and material questions. He has shown at Tabari Artspace, Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, and internationally. He has spoken at the Culture Summit Abu Dhabi and participated in panels on counter-futurisms and new media arts in the Arab world. His brother Ziad Al Najjar is also an artist; they have exhibited together and maintain a shared studio, but their practices diverge significantly in sensibility and method.