“The Drama of Intimate Geometry”

In this new series of Textile works, artist Filwa Nazer continue to investigate themes of embodied experience using the tools of pattern making techniques, hand stitching & sewing to explore notions of the body as home and its relation to emotional, spatial and phenomenological experience.

Grappling with the spatial imaginary and the idea of body / space as interchangeable; the artist creates abstract emotional topographies of various types of stitching; that juxtapose and layer a map of her home with technical patterns from personal garments that reference parts of the body and are used as spatial elements.

This body of work created for Abu Dhabi Art Fair is comprised of two parts: Topo analysis is a series of smaller works employing hand and machine stitching on calico cotton. These works reflect on the intimate value of space, of the tension between the inside & outside and the hostilities on both sides of a separating line.