From the Human Marks exhibition, Nassim Dayoub describes his art practice as an experimental way “to explore themes that aren’t marketable,” at times incorporating pre-existing objects, such as pieces of wood paneling or found snapshot photographs. Dayoub has also extended his painting practice to leather, particularly unaltered scraps of lamb skin. As both a transgender person and someone living in diaspora, Dayoub paints on lamb skin to translate the feeling of being disconnected from one’s own body. The Skin Off My Back, a special commission for Human Marks, includes a metal armature that extends the leather out from the wall, drawing attention to its materiality, and allowing it to take on new shapes and metaphors. Dayoub’s recurring imagery combines disembodied limbs with textile and ceramic motifs from his Syrian heritage, pulled from memories of the everyday objects in his grandparents’ house. It would be easy to read the illustrations on these bodies as tattoos, but it is more accurate to describe them as symbols, which, when read together, narrate stories of liberation, revolution, and resistance. The Skin Off My Back, 2025 Acrylic leather paint, deerskin, suede and brass rebar Human Marks is on view through December 13th