Dina Khorchid

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Textiles have the ability to travel, transform, and unfold histories of culture, material, and craft. The labor in creating fabric engages the physicality of the maker very closely with the materials and tools that birth a tactile print or structured fiber. The senses are activated and the brain must dig deep to unravel events and assign meaning to every fragment of an artwork. By developing a close and ritualistic relationship to my materials, processes, and thought fixations, I find myself operating as an artist, healer and cook, constantly moving between physical and mental realms. Studies in drawing, print-making and weaving feed into my larger-scale textile installations. Often layered, aesthetically and conceptually; like memories that present themselves in screens that intersect into one another. My work constructs narratives of place and connections to lost bodies while exploring themes of grief, land and domesticity. Through mark-making, photo-documentation and material studies, I delve into the broader contexts of identity politics, migration and psychoanalysis, in relation to my own lived experiences and an attempt to reclaim and unravel family history of displacement, loss and memory access. 

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photograph and charcoal printed on fabric and paper, shot over and over again - on sublimation dye printed and steamed linen

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photograph and charcoal printed on fabric and paper, shot over and over again - on sublimation dye printed and steamed linen

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Woven textile piece

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close up

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installation view

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installation view

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installation view

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installation view close up

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installation view

 

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