A Hymn

Chloë Abdelnour, A Hymn (1), 2025, Manual Machine Knitted Polycotton, Handwoven Acrylic Yarn, Textile and Paper Collage on MDF Frame, 111 x 75cm,

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A hymn; fragments of inheritance reaching for the future. 

Meditating on family relationships, cultural inheritance and bodily memory, this work is the result of an ongoing study into how collaboration and play can stretch us from what is, toward what is possible. 

Rooted in inherited gestures of making this work treats fibre as both language and lineage. Words and colour are anointed power, summoning nostalgia and celebrating resilience. Intentional holes in the fabric mark the rupture in my family stories, opening space for new narratives to be woven in. Each knit becomes a vessel for both memory and imagination, at once an act of repair and invention.