Majd Abdel Hamid
Untitled works commissioned for Material Witnesses at the ACG/Demos Center
The ACG/Demos Center, 17 Ipitou St., Plaka, Athens, 105 57
Monday 14 July- Thursday 31 July | Monday 1 September- Saturday 27 September
Opening Hours: Monday- Friday, 15:00-19:00, Saturday, 12:00-18:00
Curated by Tamara Chalabi
Majd Abdel Hamid is a Palestinian visual artist based between Beirut and Paris. His embroidered works explore themes of time, memory, and political identity through the deliberate, repetitive gesture of stitching. With an initial background in mathematics and physics, he brings a conceptual framework of pattern recognition and material abstraction to the traditional craft, creating works that display intricacy yet emotional resonance.
In newly commissioned work, Hamid reuses fabric and embroidery threads to investigate the layered histories within materials, such as those connected to cultural rituals. These intimate, meticulously crafted pieces form an ongoing archive of human experience, transforming textile into testimony. Working in small scale, Hamid subverts conventional documentation methods, asserting embroidery’s capacity to record fragile yet persistent truths through its very materiality.


These works resemble the cracks in the walls of his Beirut apartment following the 2024 earthquake in Turkey and northern Syria. As Hamid explained in his ARTEculations episode, they serve both as markers of collective experience and personal reckonings: "an attempt to make sure I am not going crazy." His practice has been deeply informed by witnessing traumatic events during his time in Ramallah and Beirut, observing the public's growing desensitisation to violent imagery in media.
Through traditional cross-stitch techniques, Hamid accomplishes dual objectives: preserving Palestinian craft heritage while creating subjective chronicles of contemporary crises, from the Syrian war to the Beirut port explosion. Each stitch becomes a measured act of resistance against erasure, embedding political consciousness into the rhythmic, meditative process of threadwork. The resulting works oscillate between abstraction and representation, inviting viewers to contemplate how personal and collective memories are woven together through time and material.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Majd Abdel Hamid (b.1988, Damascus, Syria) is a Palestinian artist, currently based between Beirut and Paris. He graduated from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden (2010) and attended the International Academy of Art in Palestine (2007-2009). Hamid’s multidisciplinary practice spans video, installation, drawing, and sculpture, through which he investigates themes of national identity, collective memory, and trauma.
Majd Abdel Hamid’s solo exhibition include On White at Grey Noise, Dubai (2025); Daydreamers at Cell Project Space, London (2025); Ode to the Sea, Marfa’, Beirut (2025); Muscle Memory, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Hamid’s work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions across the globe including at Sharjah Art Museum, SMAK, Frac Franche-Comté, Ruya Maps, Palais de Tokyo, and the Valencia Institute of Modern Art.

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