Nedret Andre Born: London, England, 1971 Past Education: ; BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, MA, 2000; BA, University of North London, UK, 1993 Current Residence: Boston, MA Traditional perspectival representations of landscape promoted the idea of humans being at the center of the world, where the land was theirs to take, to project themselves into and to control. Today, the monological worldview upon which such representations were predicated still persists; divisions among cultures, East and West, North and South, are exaggerated in the media and supported by calls for a singular moral order. My paintings aim to provide an alternative to monological thinking by giving form to depictions of collective engagement with difference. My landscapes depict the intersections where cultures meet, investigate their overlaps, and take the measure of their untranslatable moments. These “untranslatable” or “misfit” moments are key in allowing different elements to exist on the same plane—whether pictorial or political. They do not merge or assimilate into a unified monological story or scenario. In paint, I explore the untranslatable through creating disjunctions of styles in a seemingly traditional landscape format. I borrow compositional structures from Brueghel, impressionist painting techniques, and colors from Turkish patterns and rugs. I depict an ambiguous space between pattern and landscape. This for me is analogous to migratory experience: an intersection, overlapping, a collision of cultural differences. It resists being defined as either landscape or pattern. Instead it creates a new untranslatable moment where things do not neatly fit in to category. My contention is that these misfit moments in painting help make us aware of the present, and produce a genuinely dialogical relationship with viewers.