Category: “Intathirha” (Wait for her) 2019

The Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK). Bremen, Germany. when was the last time you daydreamed is Majd Abdel Hamid’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. Hamid presents embroidery and fabric works that condense—or dissolve—thought and memory processes. In the back-and-forth of the thread, he recalls and forms relationships with the world, even potential worlds. This…

Grey Noise, Dubai Material Tension In the work of Majd Abdel Hamid, embroidery is an act of thinking. A relentless process that initially chased perfection but, over time, tempered into something more fluid, more accepting of unravelling. A practice that is still compulsive but that now resists the limitations of finality. Over the last decade,…

“His exhibition «Resonances» opens with a table installation displaying colourful Polaroid photographs alongside carefully embroidered pieces of linen and silk. These works serve as variations and colour studies inspired by the plant genus ‹Aeonium›, whose ancient greek name means ‹everlasting›. This resilient species, characterised by its thick leaves and unique geometry, can survive without water…

In the past year, Majd Abdel Hamid has worked on a series of Compositions; they are colorful, painfully slow, improvised embroideries that resist the main qualifiers of cross-stitch: codified, culturally representative, and pre-planned. The rather site-specific relational aesthetic ecosystem of embroidery gives it relative autonomy and a critical edge. It resists how individuals are taught to…

“Daydreamers, Majd Abdel Hamid’s first solo exhibition in London, brings together a new and ongoing series of needlework. Initiated as early as 2012, these evolving and, at times, concluded bodies of work emerge from specific social and political moments, appearing as what the artist describes as ‘textures of memory’. Hamid engages with time as both…

Ode to the Sea (2023-ongoing) consists of small-scale embroideries, paper works, Polaroids, videos, and other mixed media works. Ode to the Sea is a travel journal that began in Tunisia (Kerkennah Islands) and continued in Lebanon (Beirut). Anafi constitutes the third chapter in this ongoing series, created in different cities along the Mediterranean. “Ode to the…