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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Dia Batal

Artist Dia Batal reflects on a Syrian tile panel with calligraphic inscription in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"When you really zoom in, there is this human connection."

Artist Dia Batal reflects on a Syrian tile panel with calligraphic inscription in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Dia Batal, born in 1978, is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist whose work is mostly context specific.

Printed vinyl on fifteenth-century hand-painted Damascene tiles

Dia Batal (Palestinian, born Beirut, Lebanon, 1978)

Mourning Hall, 2012

Printed vinyl on fifteenth-century hand-painted Damascene tiles, audio recording. Courtesy of the artist © Dia Batal. Photo: Dia Batal

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Tile Panel with Calligraphic Inscription, Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
Tile Panel with Calligraphic Inscription
dated 1000 AH/1591–92 CE