Nabil Azab

Nabil Azab (b. 1994, Paris, France) is a multidisciplinary artist of North African descent. They live and work in kanien’kehá:ka territory (Montréal). Azab employs drawing, painting, writing and researching as fodder for abstract photographic works that resist the objectivity and disciplinarity of the medium in contemporary life. Recent solo exhibitions include Something good that never happened at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver (2022) and the welling up which would not pass at DRAC, Drummondville, Quebec (2022).

Nabil Azab
Nabil Azab, Untitled (Just how we found it No.1), 2023. Commissioned by Pumice Raft, Toronto 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Franz Kaka, Toronto.

From the Archives

  • 2023 / core / exhibition

    Nabil Azab
    The Big Mess With Us Inside It

    Pumice Raft
    In tandem with the commissioned billboard project Just How We Found It, Pumice Raft presents this solo exhibition by Montréal-based artist Nabil Azab. Framing photographic abstraction through the cultural and political context of family history, the artist’s practice engages archival and family photographs, immersing viewers within memories and ghost images that highlight the subjectivity of recollection and the role of storytelling in the formation of identity.
  • 2023 / core / outdoor

    Nabil Azab
    Just How We Found It

    Runnymede and Ryding Billboards
    In tandem with his solo exhibition The Big Mess With Us Inside It at Pumice Raft, Montréal-based artist Nabil Azab’s billboard project presents large-scale photographic abstractions that move viewers into the realm of affect and perceptual gestalt. In this new body of work, Azab manipulates archival photographs to emulate the subjectivities of translation through generations—an experience akin to the slipperiness of memory.
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