Artist: Ghia Haddad
Title: The Hopemaker
Date: 2020
About Artwork
This piece is a tribute to the many invisible faces who persevere -through swollen hearts and fingers - to stitch their national identity into immortality. Palestinian tatreez has become a visual cry for freedom, an untamable force which finds momentum in the painstaking exercise of creating tiny crosses in a unison call for justice. To all the unknown soldiers who continue to embroider in refugee camps, in makeshift homes, between residencies and shelters, awaiting visas and permissions and dreaming of a better future, thank you for suturing the collective wound into new hope every day