Taji Nahl

Taji Ra’oof Nahl / TR7 ( b. 1961, Philadelphia Pennsylvania) is an autodidact polymath, with works that materialize as installations, staged production of audio & visual time and lens based media. Some works are crafted as site responsive mediums between museums, galleries, stage, streets & fields. At places such as Italian Palace, Tangier Morocco, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Icebox Project Space, Kislak Center For Rare Books And Manuscripts, Awbury Arboretum, Masjidullah, Temple University, & Broad & Lehigh Ave. in Philadelphia. Nahl’s curatorial & collaborative modes of creating as the spearheads two informal collective, 2Spiral, art based, and The Other Sounds of Philadelphia, music based, has manifested works with, George Lewis, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Futurefamers, Theodore A. Harris, Hprizm, John Schlesinger, Sharon Chestnut, Nsenga Knight among others. Nahl’s fascination with the phenomena of humanity’s triumph over difficulty is ultimately connected to processing and absorbing a very personal, inward search for mankind’s place in the universe. Influenced by his Islamic faith, Nahl’s art prompts greater self-awareness, with spatial, human interaction, furthermore the abstract dynamics to his producing assemblage sculptures with ready-made materials introduces poetic meaning for further pondering. The works are in of themselves ecosystem.