Your Ancestry Is Only a Thread Away | Hana Almilli
We kick of a new season of Outline with our new host, Sabine Boghossian, who interviews multimedia artist, photographer, writer and textile designer, Hana Almilli. Hana invites us into her multi-layered creative practice which centers mostly around textiles. Using fabric, she seeks to connect with her history, unite her ancestors and grapple with cultural and identity alienation — a feeling she has found resonates with many. She speaks about the feminine fibre that is integral to textile-based practices having been passed down generations from woman to woman, the value of the repetitive and meditative nature of weaving, and leveraging space and light as part of her work.
Hana Almilli is a multimedia artist, textile designer, and poet based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her research-based practice explores the idea of recreating affected, and resurrected identities through the material culture of textile and assemblages. Belonging to Turkish, Syrian, Kurdish, and Saudi lineage, she was persuaded with questions of identity. Enquiring into perpetual alienation, her ideology developed into discovering, and representing the term "Al Ghorba" (estrangement in a foreign land).
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This podcast series features a process-focused conversation that looks at a guest's individual projects rather than their full bodies of work. It sketches the journey of the project: the spark of curiosity that led to its birth, the process of implementing the idea, the obstacles that emerged throughout the implementation, and the aftermath of the project, including new questions and new ideas.
