Artist Statement

In my artistic practice, I explore traditional crafts and handmade techniques as mediums through which memory is embodied and histories are preserved. My work emerges from personal experience while engaging with the social, political, and cultural narratives that have shaped the history of the Middle East, where individual stories become connected to broader collective memories. My recent practice focuses on women’s needlework traditions, including embroidery, crochet, and hand tatting. I approach these techniques not as decorative crafts, but as visual languages that hold traces of labor, time, the body, and inherited knowledge. Through these practices, I investigate the silent histories embedded within women’s handmade traditions and the narratives that have often remained outside dominant historical accounts. I work through experimentation with different materials, allowing their physical qualities to shape the meaning of the work. Threads, transparency, voids, and shadows become more than formal elements; they create a space to reflect on presence and absence, visibility and concealment, fragility and resilience. Rather than offering fixed answers, my work creates spaces for contemplation, where personal memory intersects with collective memory. Through the transformation of traditional craft into contemporary artistic language, I seek to re-examine histories, preserve fragile forms of knowledge, and bring attention to experiences and voices that have often remained at the margins.