a day is as long as a year collectively embroidered tent Women’s stories of separation, loss, hope and resilience are displayed within Al Solh’s large tent titled A day is as long as a year (2022). This major work has been developed collaboratively with women embroiderers from Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, the Netherlands and South Africa. Made […]
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in love in blood – بالحبّ بالدّم writings on the wall and embroideries 2019- ongoing work The starting point of the work is a list of the words of love compiled by Ibn Qayyim El Jawziyya, who was born in Damascus in 1292. As I am collecting words, language-related sources, and lexicons, the list fo
I want to be a party – أنا حزب و حفلة راقصة ongoing series of paintings and embroideries – most recently a talk with projected images In I Want to be a Party, I make embroideries and paintings, to tell particular stories of my childhood, personalizing disasters, and looking back at specific massacres and wars through
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after eight hand-knit and machine-knit works on felt, plastic nylon bags, paper and other, 2014 This work is made of various hand-knit and machine-knit sentences that I embroidered on intimate surfaces, that help me register my notes and contradicting thoughts and findings resulting from an on-going research on language which I mostly continue doing at
Heard/felt سمع/معس double-sided patchwork curtains, about 280 x 250 cm each, 2014 These huge suspended double-sided patchworks are a playful reflection suspended between space and language based on the three letter word roots in the Arabic language. These suspended-like reflections are resulting from a linguistic research based on readings of Lebanese sociologist and linguist Ahmad Beydoun.
All mother tongues are difficult – عسيرة هي اللغة الأُمّ six to seven embroideries of mostly white text on black background 36 x 64 cm each, 2014 six to seven embroideries that transgress the form of a video still and the white text on black background in silent films in order to register a temporary
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