MultakaOxford – Oxfordshire Artweeks

365 MultakaOxford

Region: Oxford Centre

Artform: Multidisciplinary, Textiles

Living Textiles:

Encounter the beauty and profound cultural importance the art of textiles holds for people around the world.

This display, facilitated by MultakaOxford at the Pitt Rivers Museum celebrates how communities around the world use textiles and creativity to weave stories of resilience, beauty and cultural identity.

Included in the display are pieces from MultakaOxford and its partner Alsama Studio, showcasing their recent exhibition ‘Threading Memory: Tatreez Transformations’. Co-curated with the women artists of Alsama Studio, a grassroots social enterprise working across Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp and Idlib, Syria, their display presents an exploration of tatreez–the traditional embroidery practice of the Levant–and its reimagining in contexts of exile, migration, and creative renewal. It invites visitors to engage with tatreez as both a material art form and a living practice of cultural memory.

For more information about this display and MultakaOxford please visit the Pitt Rivers Museum website.