Majd Abdel Hamid's Beirut Explosion-Inspired Embroideries at GB Agency Paris

From 15 October to 19 November 2022, Palestinian artist Majd Abdel Hamid showcases two embroidery series at GB Agency in Paris. The exhibition, named 800 Meters and a Corridor, is a response to the 2020 explosion at a Beirut fertilizer warehouse. The 800 Meters series features workbooks crafted with coiled surgical thread, creating embroideries that mimic scar tissue, symbolizing the length of thread required for healing wounds. In the Corridor series, stitched diagrams depict safe spaces, often windowless corridors, on mottled indigo fabric. Hamid's artistic practice intertwines cotton thread with various materials, drawing from both twentieth-century abstraction and Islamic art. Having been injured in the explosion, he observed a sense of solidarity among fellow patients, while the backgrounds in the Corridor series reflect Palestinian mourning customs.