Nada El-Omari

do you hear your eye vibrate

9 may to 27 june 2026

Exhibition

9 may to 27 june 2026

Nada El-Omari's artistic approach is rooted in a profound exploration of memory, diasporic identity, and uprooting, through an approach that is both poetic and experimental. Of Palestinian and Egyptian origin and based in Montreal, she weaves together a body of work in which personal trajectories intersect with collective narratives, often fragmented and scattered. Through a hybrid practice combining film, installation, writing, and sound design, she questions what it means to “belong” when one's place of origin is inaccessible or fragmented. Her works take shape from intimate materials: family archives, recorded voices, visual or sound collages, everyday objects, which she assembles in a non-linear manner. In this way, she creates open, shifting works that function as spaces of memory in construction. Rejecting fixed narratives, she offers a fluid, hybrid narrative in which the beauty of fragments, voids, and silences becomes a way of remembering differently, at once fragile and persistent. Her practice takes shape in a constant back-and-forth between the personal and the political, between the past and the present, between erasure and resistance. By bringing to light the traces left by the passage of time and forced displacement, she constructs narratives that are rooted in the margins, the cracks, the transmissions. In this way, each project becomes a territory of symbolic anchoring, a place of dialogue between generations, and an invitation to feel, beyond the visible, the intimate resonance of what persists despite erasure.

Biography

Nada El-Omari is a filmmaker and writer of Palestinian and Egyptian origin, based in Montreal. Through a hybrid practice combining film, installation, writing, and sound design, she explores themes of memory, migration, displacement, and diasporic identity. By focusing on process and fragments in text, sound, and image, Nada explores new ways to self-narrate, and speak hybridity and self. Her work, often constructed from intimate fragments: family archives, recorded voices, everyday objects, questions notions of belonging and intergenerational transmission. Nada El-Omari favors a poetic and non-linear narration that brings out the traces and silences of stories that are often invisible or erased. Her films have been presented at festivals, on Shasha and Tenk, and in galleries. Her work has also been published in Montreal Serai, qumra journal, Pavillons and Tantôt magazine. Nada El-Omari holds a BFA in Film Production and an MFA in Film from York University.

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