Quilting the Memoir
Quilting the Memoir is a time based media art installation comprised of a series of digital quilts. Each digital quilt is composed of images, photographs and photographed objects, that have been stitched together, creating abstract impressions of memory and the stories they tell.
Inspired by different quilting traditions and cultures, including the Egyptian Khayamiya, the digital quilt brings together life stories that draw from experienced and inherited childhood memories, family photographs, and photographed objects. The digital quilt is a transformative media artefact that shifts concepts of memory and the archive, from a fixed entities, into lived experiential collective spaces.
Quilting the Memoir draws on life stories, memoirs and academic research that explore the cultural imaginaries of Egyptian Jewry.
Exhibition Space:
Gallery Produit Rien – Montreal (Quebec) Canada
October 23 – 29, 2023
Sample Works of Digital Quilts
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Mother, Mother
Memories fading, with portraits of mother and daughter on summer holiday.
Golden Circles, Global Diaspora
Diasporic movement using classic quilting pattern
From riches to rags. Fragments of the classic Hermes ‘Eperon d’or’ scarf series.
Tryptic
Stitches, patterns, inscription.
Earrings, family portraits, fabric.
Fabric, family photos of summer holidays.
Mourad wa Kalsoum
Leila Mourad and Oum Kalsoum
Sample Works of Paper Quilts
Patterns of Home 40″x80″
(6 x 20 x 20″ printed on cotton paper)
Gallery Produit Rien
Montreal, Quebec
October 23 – 29, 2023
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