Filwa Nazer. Diagrams of Dislocation, Untitled 2. 2025. Cotton thread on Calico cotton and black nylon tulle.
The Body, Reconstructed: Filwa Nazer and the Poetics of Embodied Space
"To be housed, is an ongoing negotiation between comfort and unease, between safety and vulnerability.”
In this conversation, Filwa Nazer reflects on her practice through the lens of the body as a living, shifting space, one that holds memory, sensation, and identity in constant negotiation with its environment. Moving between sculpture, textile, and installation, her work resists fixed definitions, instead embracing instability as a condition of presence.
At the heart of the discussion is The Housed Body, ( the title of her recent solo exhibition at Selma Feriani Gallery ) a concept in which “home” extends beyond the physical structure to become emotional and psychological terrain. Here, the body itself becomes a dwelling, holding memory, vulnerability, and transformation.
Nazer explores tension, transition, and restraint, allowing discomfort and uncertainty to remain unresolved. In doing so, her work opens a space for reflection on what it truly means to inhabit a body, and how meaning is formed through sensation, time, and lived experience.
Read the full interview on the publisher’s platform.
