Filwa Nazer’s delicate practice using textile centers around questioning the emotional and psychological identity in relation to spatial and social contexts. She continues to investigate the intricacies of disembodiment and embodiment by employing textiles and sewing techniques as a medium to explore relationships between our bodies and the spaces we occupy, thus unveiling an intimate experimental process that reflects the tensions inherent in both.

The themes of embodied experience using the tools of pattern making techniques, hand stitching and sewing allows Nazer 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 by juxtaposing and layering a map of her home, alongside technical patterns from personal garments, that reference parts of the body and are used as spatial elements. Nazer’s works are embedded in studies of Topoanalysis as they reflect on the intimate value of space, of the tension between the inside and outside and the hostilities on both sides of a separating line.