ELEPHANT published Chloe Ashby's feature Hearth, Home and Heritage: Radically Redefining the Domestic with Aya Haidar on 19 November 2021.
The interview follows the British Lebanese artist's work with home, heritage and the domestic, and the way craft, especially embroidery and found or family materials, becomes a language for those themes. The gallery is not named; this is earlier than Battlegrounds, her 2024 solo at Tabari, and distinct from later embroidery features already on the News page or in this batch.
Ashby stays with the domestic as a serious field of work, not a minor theme, and Haidar talks about making from what is close at hand. The feature belongs to ELEPHANT's long form artist interviews of that period.
The 2021 date places the interview well before her later DIFC solo, and it is useful as a longer English language conversation about the same themes that later appear in Battlegrounds.
Tabari represents Aya Haidar, and presented Battlegrounds at the gallery in DIFC in 2024.
