Category: Textile
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Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a visual artist whose work frequently occupies the domestic sphere to explore the boundaries of cultural identity. Staging familial memories in nostalgic recreations of home, her work nods to both tradition and technological change and is often deftly punctured by powerful feminist and social critique. Using a variety of media from…
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Rawan Abbas (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Cairo, Egypt. She has participated in many shows where she exhibited textiles, sculpture, installation art, and video. Notably, she participated in the Dak’art Biennial in 2022, London’s 1-54 Art Fair with Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2021, and had two solo exhibitions in Hamburg, Germany…
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Born in Cairo 1940, Egyptian artist Ikram Omar studied at the faculty of Fine Arts, Egypt, and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Finally, she obtained her degree from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy, in 1966. The artist, Ikram Omar, chose to make her cultural artistic message…
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Neama El Sanhoury’s upbringing in what she describes as a cultured household is primarily what cultivated her profound appreciation and commitment to rectifying Egypt’s wealth of historical and civilizational customs and heritage. Naturally, El Sanhoury pursued her studies in a similar direction, specifically in applied arts as well as Egyptology, archaeology and art therapy in…
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Nasrin Abu Baker is a multifaceted artist who works with various media, such as installations, paintings, and video art. Her artistic expression is influenced by her use of diverse materials, such as ready-made objects, industrial materials, textiles, tar, threads, wood, photographs, lighting, and more. Her works invite the viewers to enter a unique world that…
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Effat Naghi was born into an aristocratic family in Alexandria. Her brother was the great artist Mohamed Naghi, who was twenty years her senior. Naghi was tutored at home and in her early years traveled to Europe several times with her father. When Mohamed Naghi realised that his sister possessed artistic talents, he began to…
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“The paintings and installations of the Iranian artist Samira Hodaei are painstakingly assembled from scores of individual elements. Whether pixel-like dots that are applied directly on the canvas or discarded everyday objects that are assembled into huge garment-like structures, her work seems to simultaneously cover and uncover the object of its investigation. The narratives she…
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Amman based mixed media artist, Shereen Quttaineh graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Yarmouk university in 1999. She Participated in several group exhibitions in Amman. Shereen explores contemporary textile art and printing in most of her pieces. Her interest in nature, patterns, and cultural symbols is evident in her work. She often uses…
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Maha Alasaker is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans across various mediums, including photography, performance, textiles, and natural dyes. Her artistic explorations are driven by her curiosity about anthropology and culture, as well as her interest in the connection between land and human beliefs. As a woman who grew up in the Middle East, Maha’s…
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Gözde İlkin (b. 1981, Kütahya) uses painting and stitching to create works on repurposed domestic fabrics. Solo shows include The Eye of the Earth, The Mouth of the Ground (2022); Entrusted Ground, artSümer, Istanbul (2022); The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate, Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and Please Clear the Dance Floor, artSümer,…