Tell all the truth but tell it slant Natalie Hamada

Hamada’s remarkable and vividly rich colourful prints are the result of her outstanding and skilful experimentation to extract from printmaking techniques its unique visual and fertile qualities. She can be described as a gifted colourist who knows exactly how to lighten the mood of those almost theatrically staged prints. With silkscreen as the base, she applies several transparent layers of hand-printing, and through dexterous mixing, combining, wiping, stencilling, and obscuring, therefore the unpredictability nature of hand-printing becomes essential in the creative process.

In Hamada’s tableaux, everything and everyone simply exists as an endless recollection of literal and allegorical personal experiences. She juxtaposes imagery from contrasting realities into one image, She merges images sourced from art history, vintage photos, and family albums. In the end, Hamada’s themes all together seem to be a unique exhilaration and self-reflection that result from importing diverse visual sources from the world into the realm of her prints– and those prints turn out a kind of marvellous constructed enchantment– we can say they express a magnificent splendour on its own terms and strictly for our delight.