Plural Kinships is a joint exhibition by artists Raisa Kabir and Fadhel Mourali, which uses traditional craft as a methodology to trace how knowledge, both embodied and inherited, is preserved, transformed, and passed on through materials, rituals, and oral histories across diasporas. Fed by research, both artists unpick how communities creatively adapt, creating from their locality as a means to sustain meaning, belonging, and open kinships; shaping a tapestry of connected histories that extend beyond perceived notions of History.
Kabir’s woven and sculptural works transform textile traditions into sites of embodied knowledge and critique. Her practice interrogates the politics of cloth production and the gendered, racialised structures of global textile labour. In this exhibition, Kabir presents a series of handwoven installations that consider diasporic intimacies and the movements of bodies, fibres, and stories.
Mourali’s practice unfolds through weaving to deconstruct notions of heritage and belonging. Told through a contemporary approach to longstanding traditions of his Swedish heritage, he explores collective memory and legacy, creating dialogues with family members past and present. Rooted in the rural community of Risa, home of his great-grandfather, the last basket maker of the village, Mourali transforms wood fibers into yarn, connecting past and present.
Together, Plural Kinships gestures towards collective ways of being and making, where craft and collaboration become acts of solidarity. The exhibition invites audiences to inhabit a space of relation, to encounter how intertwined identities are woven through shared histories and reimagined futures.