Open LABitat Aisha Hachem
December 17 | 17.00 – 20.00 hrs.
With drinks&bites
Since the end of November, four artists have joined the LABitat trajectory: Aisha Hachem, Ra’fat Ali, An Ye Zhi de Jong, and Jurjen Galema. The upcoming months they will work at NP3 | RE:Search:Gallery, experimenting and creating new works. They regularly show their process in Open LABitats, the first one will be on December 17th.
Aisha Hachem’s artistic practice focuses on weaving, embroidery, and the transformative potential of textile traditions. She explores memory, identity, and cultural heritage through the re-interpretation of Middle Eastern motifs, including Tatreez, Bedouin patterns, and Lebanese weaving. By abstracting and recombining these symbols, Aisha creates a personal visual language that bridges ancestral knowledge with contemporary expression.
Central to her work are weaving labs and workshops, which function as collaborative spaces for learning, experimentation, and dialogue. Aisha encourages participants to explore both technical skill and creative improvisation, fostering environments where tradition and innovation coexist. Each stitch and woven line becomes a trace of shared memory, culture, and personal expression, making the workshops living archives of collective knowledge.
Aisha’s practice emphasizes the dualities inherent in weaving: structure and freedom, individual and collective, past and present. By rethinking traditional forms, she positions Middle Eastern textile practices within a contemporary framework, preserving cultural heritage while opening it to reinterpretation. Through her labs and collaborative projects, Aisha transforms weaving into a space of connection, experimentation, and cultural exchange, highlighting its potential as both a material and social practice.
LABitat is NP3’s development programme that aims at fostering artistic research and experimentation. The name LABitat merges “LAB” (laboratory) and “habitat” (livin