Idit Nathan Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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Following twelve years as a theatre practitioner (working as scenographer), my current visual practice is often playful and interactive. with a strong interest in memory. I have shown and devised work in the UK, US, Europe, Russia and Israel Palestine.

I currently work as a socially engaged and collaborative visual artist having originally worked in theatre and set design. I have exhibited, performed, collaborated and researched internationally, specifically concerned with memory, personal and collective history and conflict. My practice responds to these sensitive and complex themes with a variety of art forms, and collaborative processes. I have investigated the dynamic interplay between memory, forgetting and erasure in diverse ways devising artists’ games, ludic walks and maps as well as producing objects, drawings, photographs, prints, films and texts.

I take play very ‘seriously’ regarding it as a productively disruptive force that when used in artful ways can engage diverse audiences with some of the most complex contemporary dilemmas such as migration, shifting borders, fluid identities and ‘post-truth’ discourses. I view play and memory as intertwined, as everyone has recollections of play, even if not entirely positive ones. I have engaged diverse communities and intergenerational audiences / participants across the UK using play in sites such as the National Theatre, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and RIBA, to name but some, and am repeatedly struck by the ways in which people willingly open up, share experiences and actively engage to co-create or inform the production of my artworks, exhibitions and events.