Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread), XI, 2022

cotton thread on fabric
71 x 77 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 91

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread) X, 2022

cotton thread on metal
Embroidery: 4 cm
Metal grid: ø 12 cm
unique
MAH/S 7

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread) IV, 2022

linen, indigo-dyed cotton
20.7 x 18.6 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 71

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread) IX, 2022

cotton thread on fabric
34 x 30 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 88

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread) V, 2022

cotton thread on fabric
29 x 23.5 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 84

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread) IX, 2022

linen, indigo-dyed cotton
30 x 19 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 85

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread) XIII, 2022

cotton thread
36 x 25 cm
unique
MAH/S 97

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, Research, 2022

cotton thread on fabric
21.5 x 235 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 57

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, How long was the thread, 2020–2021

cotton thread on fabric
38 x 18 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 48

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole

Majd Abdel Hamid, 800 meters (how long was the thread), 2022

cotton thread on fabric
24.5 x 11 cm
unique
MAH/TEX 90

800 meters (how long was the thread)
cotton thread on fabric
variable dimensions
unique

A recent sketch, 800 meters, refers to the countless stitches performed in people after the August 4, 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut, which mutilated a city and population already devastated by the summer 2019 crisis and the years of corruption that preceded it. Wounded, his head stitched up and still in shock, Majd Abdel Hamid interrupted the white rectangle he was working on and set about three more embroi- deries before finishing it, his wrist swollen. The irrepressible need to repeat a gesture in response to an unspoken anguish is all about compulsion – the unstoppable need to repeat a gesture. This automatism solves nothing and constitutes in its turn a form of anxiety. An operation of filling up time, the compulsion transposed into an artistic gesture builds an object all the more charged with meaning that it delivers no explicit message - there is no enunciation regarding its mechanism, which is a trauma.
Marie Muracciole