Weaving Lab
Aisha Hachem
Saturday September 13
10.00 – 18.00 hrs.
“When we enter a living room, we rarely notice how much the objects within it carry. A chair that once held the weight of conversations, a lamp that once illuminated gatherings, a table that once gathered meals and memories – each object lingers with stories, even when worn, broken, or abandoned.
In this installation, fragments of domestic space appear incomplete, stripped of their original function. They hang in the air like memories that no longer fully belong. Yet they are not left to vanish. Thread by thread, weaving begins to pass through them; wrapping emptiness, filling gaps, stitching a new pulse that beats beyond their past. The weave refuses nostalgia. It does not repair, but reanimates.
Here, the guest room, a cultural stage of hospitality and display, often carefully curated in Middle Eastern homes – is transformed. It is no longer polished for visitors, but raw, vulnerable, and in flux. Woven scars remain visible. The furniture does not return to what it once was; instead, it learns to live again in a different rhythm.
Visitors are invited into this living room of incomplete objects, where weaving becomes both ritual and resistance. The act of passing thread across fractured forms becomes a gesture of memory, of reclaiming identity, of holding onto what slips through displacement and time.”
Aisha Hachem