Daydreamers
Majd Abdel Hamid
27.03.2025 — 25.05.2025
Opening: Thursday 27th March 2025, 6-9pm
28th March - 25th May 2025
12-6pm Thursday - Sunday
Daydreamers, Majd Abdel Hamid’s first solo exhibition in London, brings together new and ongoing series of needlework. Initiated as early as 2013, these evolving and, at times, completed bodies of work emerge from specific social and political moments, appearing as what the artist describes as 'textures of memory'.
In dialogue with Hamid's most recent project for the 2024 Lyon Biennial, which sought to find cracks within the binary logic of the Jacquard loom’s punch card, this exhibition marks a point of departure in his practice. Here, the artist considers how everyday acts of making may partake in the understated project of carving out spaces for possibility, quiet joy, and life.
Majd Abdel Hamid is a visual artist from Palestine. He was born in Damascus in 1988, and is currently based between Beirut and Paris. He graduated from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2010) and attended the International Academy of Art in Palestine (2007-2009). Majd Abdel Hamid solo exhibitions include Signal, Malmö (2024) Muscle Memory, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; 800 meters and a corridor, gb agency, Paris (2022); A Stitch in Time, Fondation d'Entreprise Hermès, Brussels curated by Guillaume Desanges (2021). Majd Abdel Hamid's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Les voix des fleuves, Biennale de Lyon, Phenomenon 5, Anafi, When Solidarity is not a Metaphor, Venice Biennial, Dislocations, Portes ouvertes sur l'Art, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, (Re)generation, Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives, Paris (2024) Art Explora, Photograph Pavillion 2023 Hirafen, La Station, Denden, Tunis, Kyiv Biennial, Vienna Institut Français de Jerusalem, Qattan Foundation and Taawon Foundation, Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and the Whitworth, Manchester, UK (2023); Memory Sews Together Events That Hadn’t Previously Met, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah; Splendid Isolation, SMAK, Ghent; La Beauté du Diable, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon (2022); Répare, Reprise, Cité International des Arts, Paris, (2021); Heartbreak, Ruya Maps,Venice; Touché! (gesture, movement, action), Beirut Art Center, Beyrouth, (2019); at Krognoshuset Lund in Sweden (2016), the Valencia Institute of Modern Art in Spain and the Halil Saakini Cultural Center in Palestine (2018).
With generous support by Fluxus Art Projects, Cockayne Foundation and The Elephant Trust. 
