The Worshipful published an interview with Aya Haidar, written by Amy Ma, profiling the Lebanese-born textile artist and activist and her practice rooted in personal identity, displacement and social justice.
The interview discusses Soleless, a series embroidering worn shoe soles with narratives gathered from Syrian refugees and other marginalised people the artist met during a 2017 residency in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and Highly Strung, the durational embroidery project acquired in its entirety by the Guggenheim, which addresses the invisible emotional and physical demands of motherhood. Haidar tells the publication, "the volume of work that we do that is invisible, that is taken for granted, gets completely brushed off." The piece also notes that her work has been shown at Kettle's Yard and the Whitworth, and alongside that of Mona Hatoum.
Read alongside her other profiles, the interview traces how Aya Haidar's Lebanese heritage and feminist reading of domestic and care work run through pieces first developed for the touring exhibition Material Power, in which her embroidery has been shown at Kettle's Yard and the Whitworth.
