I’m a Swedish-Moroccan visual artist who works and lives in Los Angeles. My art focuses on notions of unearthing multiple layers and buried memories. Using materiality and process, I mine ideas of meaning embedded in the material itself.
Meditation
These works are inspired by “Dogma Embroidery” a type of meditative embroidery introduced by Jytte Harboesgaard to renew traditional embroidery. The idea is to experiment with materials and techniques without a final picture or design in mind. As a Dogma Embroidery workshop participant put it:
Dogma embroidery is a form of meditation
The rules provide a protected space when I embroider
Nothing gets there from the outside
There is no before or after
Only here and now
Transmutation
These small works were painted during a residency in Sweden (Tomma Rum) held at a former water mill.The marks are loose interpretations of abandoned industrial components and decaying concrete walls. Finding beauty in imperfection has a melancholic and contemplative flavor. The title of the work points to the constant flux and impermanence of all things.