Majd Abdel Hamid

ode to sea, 2023-ongoing
Mixed media

Poster, Bus stop project

 

Majd Abdel Hamid is a visual artist from Palestine, currently based between Beirut and Paris. Abdel Hamid works in a broad variety of media, including video, installation, drawing and sculpture, through which he explores themes of national identity and trauma. His artistic practice is rooted in the slow, repetitive, performative gesture, including embroidery and cross-stich on fabric supports, as a counterbalance to high-speed digital image production and pixels.

For phenomenon 5, Abdel Hamid presented the ongoing project ode to sea (2023-ongoing), which consists of small-scale embroideries and paper works, polaroids, videos and other mixed media works. ode to sea serves as a travel journal that began in Tunisia (Kerkennah Islands) and continued in Lebanon (Beirut). Anafi constitutes the third chapter in this ongoing series, created in different cities along the Mediterranean.