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THE HOUSED BODY : FILWA NAZER SOLO EXHIBITION

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10 October - 6 November 2025
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Filwa Nazer, Self Portrait, 2025

Filwa Nazer

Self Portrait, 2025
Cotton thread on Calico cotton, nylon tulle, tarlatan
193h x 155w x 7d cm
76h x 61w x 2.76d in

173h x 137w cm (Unframed)
68h x 54w in (Unframed)
FN-000057
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Self Portrait's base layer, resembling a soft-hued grid, is composed of multiple floor plans: some recalled from childhood memories, some lifted from her own home, and others still from plans...
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Self Portrait's base layer, resembling a soft-hued grid, is composed of multiple floor plans: some recalled from childhood memories, some lifted from her own home, and others still from plans of a new house. Upon this architectural foundation, the repeated shapes of torso sewing patterns and other garment pieces appear to descend, twisting down the centre of the work. This suggestion of falling and movement atop the careful, detailed gridlines of the architectural plans not only offers interesting juxtapositions of rigidity and movement and of opacity and transparency, but also hints at a new shift within Nazer’s practice. What seems at first to be the solid structure of technical plans unravels upon closer inspection: the floorplans delineate spaces that are sometimes impossible to manoeuvre while the garment patterns obfuscate and interrupt with precarious movement. At such a scale, the muddled feelings of negotiating and anticipating change become palpably felt.
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32 Rue Ibn Nafis
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Tunisia

LONDON

1-5 Cromwell Place

London, SW72JE

United Kingdom

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