Nazif Lopulissa (Tiel, 1991) based in Rotterdam, combines narratives of migration with a formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. The artist is born to a Turkish father and a Moluccan mother. The dichotomy of these cultures stands at the basis of much of Lopulissa’s practice. He employs techniques and materials drawn from specific autobiographical contexts, both Turkish and Moluccan, like wooden sculptures or a pandan cake, which he combines with abstract visual languages to communicate across these cultural boundaries. The woven canvases, a series that won Lopulissa the Wolvecampprijs for painting in 2022, in essence each consist of two paintings; Lopulissa painted soft thick  lines on two canvases, which he both cut in even strokes, and then wove together. The technique was inspired by IKAT weaving, a weaving technique prevalent in South East Asia.