The Palestinian artist Majd Abdel Hamid at the Marfa gallery. Courtesy of the Marfa gallery.
Majd Abdel Hamid embroiders as if forging a bond as if connecting, recounting, protecting, preserving from oblivion, taming or halting time, suturing, healing, or even thinking. Of Palestinian origin, he was born in Damascus in 1988. Though often described as an artist of exile, he refuses the label of "exiled." Now based between Beirut and Paris, he carries within him the three Levantine countries — each a thread woven into his being, each marked by bloody conflicts, inhumane wars and deep instability. In this shifting landscape, words lose meaning. Only art remains. His deliberately small in an era obsessed with monumental scale takes form in abstract embroidery.His work is part of major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Stockholm County Council, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, the Barjeel Art Foundation in...
Majd Abdel Hamid embroiders as if forging a bond as if connecting, recounting, protecting, preserving from oblivion, taming or halting time, suturing, healing, or even thinking. Of Palestinian origin, he was born in Damascus in 1988. Though often described as an artist of exile, he refuses the label of "exiled." Now based between Beirut and Paris, he carries within him the three Levantine countries — each a thread woven into his being, each marked by bloody conflicts, inhumane wars and deep instability. In this shifting landscape, words lose meaning. Only art remains. His deliberately small in an era obsessed with monumental scale takes form in abstract embroidery.His work is part of major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Stockholm County Council, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, the Barjeel Art Foundation...
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