Art

“Borderless Weave”: An art installation within a collective exhibition in Madrid

This December 2024, my work “Borderless Weave” found a home at the Lucia Mendoza Gallery in Madrid as part of Relational Routes’s collective exhibition, creatively directed curation by Martin Jimenez Javier, features my piece. The gallery has long been known for creating dialogues between different artistic practices, and it’s dedicated to driving contemporary art towards […]

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Honorable Mention at Contextile Biennale: Reflecting on Tradition, Identity, and Resielince through Wool.

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It is a profound honour to receive the 1st Honorable Mention at the Contextile Biennale 2024, an international exhibition that showcases innovative and contemporary textile art. The biennale exhibited the artworks of 50 international artists out of 1400. Representing Palestine myself, this recognition affirms my commitment to using wool as a medium to explore themes

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Loom Chairs; An innovative transformation of an inherited Craft into Design

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One of the artist’s accomplishments throughout the project was exploring the traditional ground loom used by Palestinian women. After designing a range of beautifully woven stools, she revived the ground loom, recognizing its essential role in weaving, which had become disconnected from the Palestinian urban scene. She integrated the loom’s mechanism into a chair, transforming

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‘WE BECAME THE LAND’ First Solo Art Exhibition in Madrid, Spain.

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‘If you drive from the city of Ramallah to the village of Mughayyir, through the car window, you see ochre lands, olive trees, already harvested wheat fields, light-coloured buildings, and a bright blue sky. It’s a vision quite similar to what one might see if, crossing part of the Iberian Peninsula, you go from Sigüenza

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‘Around our Hands’ video art; A living language of the Palestinian Ancestors.

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I Participated through an open call of Tadafuq; an artistic program developed in Palestine, supported by several local and European institutions, for which it gathers Young artists from fragmented geopolitical compartments inside and outside Palestine. Tadafuq seeks to overcome physical borders and arbitrary checkpoints through artistic expression, an exhibition held in Casa Árabe in Madrid,

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