Dina Haddad’s BFA thesis exhibition, Hollow Reflections, was originally scheduled from April 20–24 in the Oliver Art Center on CCA’s Oakland campus. Due to the Bay Area’s COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, we are sharing work by Dina and other graduating students on CCA’s website and social media channels. 

Artwork by Dina Haddad will be featured on CCA's official social media channels, including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, starting April 23 at 5pm PDT. 

ARTIST STATEMENT

In moments of reflection, I find myself as a small particle in a universe that is moving along without me. Through my photography, I am able to express and showcase these observations of conscious and unconscious feelings and emotions. A contemplation of delusion, reality, individuality, and the self. I highlight the idea of the individual by presenting myself in my most vulnerable places and positions. Posing myself in the bedroom and bathroom, which acted as my sanctuaries from family, people, and reality as a child and now as an adult. Positioning myself in what I consider “intimate apparel” with my body facing the camera in very open and vulnerable stances. Parallel to the intimacy and vulnerability of the individual’s body, the images of nature function as moments of quietness and serenity throughout the self-evaluation process, and as initiators of feelings of grandeur. The photographs are taken in locations of significant moments of self-reflection either in response to an event or the action of the image-making process is within itself a moment of self-reflection.

BIO

Dina Haddad is a photographer and visual artist focused on self-portraiture and landscape. Haddad is based in the San Francisco/Bay Area. Originally from the Middle East, from Jordan and moved to New York around 2009. Haddad received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography, degree in 2020 from California College of the Arts.

Right: From Hollow Reflections by Dina Haddad, 2018. Medium format film.

To view more work by Dina Haddad, visit haddaddina.com or follow @haddadkdina on Instagram.