Isa Dahan

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  • Digital collages

    A3 prints are available for purchase.

    These digital collages were initially made for my project “Stuffed” but later in the process turned into their own project. These pieces are an almost direct translation from my visual world/language. They are made with its guidelines and ethos in mind. In some their origins are clearly visible in others they are super distorted, from a peeled grape to  a french pastry. They are gooey, juicy, puffy, spikey and so much more. All imagery is original and taken myself.

    The two collages above are made for Blend radio, a radio collective with themes around tea and tea drinking.

  • SKIN BENEATH SAND

    Poster design for a short film Skin Beneath Sand, dutch film festival selection 2024

  • 20 windows

  • Kira Kira

    a small jewellery brand that I started. Check out it’s instagram page @kira_____kira_____

  • Typesetting experiment

  • (I saw the sound) poster design

    This is a poster campaign made during a graphic design workshop week in 2021 at Rietveld. The idea was that everyone made a black & white poster for the event. This poster would then be divided into parts and redistributed to the class to color in. Below is my black & white design

    The typefaces were made with pen and paper, specially for this poster.

    Below on the left are all the pieces I received from the other students. I put them together as a big poster and made a bigger design on top of them (on the right). These pieces were later handed out to be reassembled into their original posters.

  • Greetings from …

    Gerrit Rietveld Academie edition, in collaboration with Photographer Nikki Mulder

    Available for purchase, €2 for one card or all six cards for €10

    Greetings from… is a project about Postcards, launched at Gel exhibition space at Rietveld. This edition features Gerrit Rietveld Academie as its subject. It consist of 6 different cards featuring Rietveld spaces and objects.

    postcard 1

    When I was younger I made a rule to always buy a postcard whenever I went to a museum or exhibition, didn’t matter if that was from the current exhibition or a work I saw or just a beautiful card. This resulted in a huge collection of cards. I saw them as small art works, a little copy of the original. When in Copenhagen at Kunsthal Charlottenburg I found a card that said Greetings from Antartica, which made me laugh.

    At the same time I was given a big part of my grandfathers postcard collection. In his younger years he was a big collector of them even dealing in rare cards worth surprisingly a lot. Some of these cards also features greetings of some sorts.

    Together this resulted in the idea of Greetings from…, a platform in which greetings can be given from many different places through the format of postcards.

    postcard 2

    postcard 3

    postcard 4

    postcard 5

    postcard 6

    The launch at Gel exhibition space, featuring an enlarged postcard

  • 13,5×27 cm paper

    10 works, made with pastels, watercolour and pencils

  • Batik

    Whilst on exchange for textile design at Tama Art university in Tokyo, I got the chance to learn the technique of Batik. Below are the raw pieces that came out of the class. I am currently in the process of making the works more functional as an art piece, rather than just a loose piece of fabric.

    Average size of 28 cm x 35

    Above: scarf made from cotton fabric, below: scarf made from silk fabric

    Painting on a cotton bedsheet

    Below: postcard paintings send home to my family

    Below: pads used for excess ink on my brushes or dripping wax from my tools

    Below: technique exercises with a average size of 15 x 25 cm

  • Jewellery Letters

    2nd print –– A3 Riso printed Jewellery letters – inspired by a chainmail bag from 1900-1910 Germany – for sale €15