huda with me i carry your name - kuwait - yarmouk cultural centre
Mishari’s second solo exhibition explores what remains as not an excess of absence, but a settled and sustained condition that continues to transfigure bodies, homes, and lineages. From embroidery and textile practices habitual and embedded in familial histories, the artist transmogrifies grief, memory, and intergenerational transmission through a needling of his art. Here, grief appears as heirloom, lamentation, commemoration, and care. Heirlooms from cloth and thread of memory and affinity.
This exhibition is a process of restoration. The artist turns to material traces, recollections, and collaborative acts of renewal for unfinished work, for feminine extensions of love and labor, for stories pursued and preserved.
Drawing from the notion of the “carrier bag theory,” the exhibition frames the beiz (cloth pot-holder) as holding sites where ordinary objects and intimate histories coexist. Here, memory is held through communal collection, tactility, and use. Here, home is not a fixed expenditure or in architecture, but reassembled through process and touch.
Rather than rupture, grief mediates and draws the artist closer to his mother through shared making; the same making that circulates Huda’s memory. This collaborative practice through memory, time, and spatial continuums frames mourning as something lived across generations, moving through a triadic lineage of Grandmother, mother and aunt, and artist. Embroidery becomes both act and archive that holds continuity, care, and the persistence of life within its stitches.
Text and Curation by The Practice
Special thanks for The Carpet Guy for the on loan antiques
Photos by Shouq Nasrallah