Atelier 11 Open Studio
with Maha Al Daya and Kiều-Anh Nguyễn
15h - 19h, Saturday, 24 May, 2025
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
To reflect on the 150-year history of Atelier 11—originally a studio for sculpture production that became a creative refuge for artists during the political turmoils of the 20th century—we are pleased to invite you to an Open Studio event featuring Paris-based Palestinian artist Maha Al Daya and interdisciplinary artist Kiều-Anh Nguyễn from Vietnam.
Kiều-Anh Nguyễn sculpts spaces from the invisible yet essential, using scent as a medium for memory tracing and care. Through participatory works and sensory journeys, she will present her site-specific research, recontextualizing the atelier’s histories and inviting audiences to experience time and space in new, immersive ways.
Maha Al-Daya will present her new work, which engages deeply with Palestinian cultural heritage and contemporary realities. Through traditional Palestinian embroidery, she transforms artmaking into a form of resistance and documentation, shedding light on experiences of displacement and identity.
Join us for an evening of artistic exchange, where the intersection of memory, place, and resilience unfolds through two distinct yet complementary practices.
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
To reflect on the 150-year history of Atelier 11—originally a studio for sculpture production that became a creative refuge for artists during the political turmoils of the 20th century—we are pleased to invite you to an Open Studio event featuring Paris-based Palestinian artist Maha Al Daya and interdisciplinary artist Kiều-Anh Nguyễn from Vietnam.
Kiều-Anh Nguyễn sculpts spaces from the invisible yet essential, using scent as a medium for memory tracing and care. Through participatory works and sensory journeys, she will present her site-specific research, recontextualizing the atelier’s histories and inviting audiences to experience time and space in new, immersive ways.
Maha Al-Daya will present her new work, which engages deeply with Palestinian cultural heritage and contemporary realities. Through traditional Palestinian embroidery, she transforms artmaking into a form of resistance and documentation, shedding light on experiences of displacement and identity.
Join us for an evening of artistic exchange, where the intersection of memory, place, and resilience unfolds through two distinct yet complementary practices.
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Sculpting the Invisible with Kiều-Anh Nguyễn
During this open studio, Kiều-Anh Nguyễn will be sharing the results of her site-specific research, which traces the histories of the Atelier 11 through the livelihoods and interactions that once animated its spaces in the lenses of olfactory. Following Kiều-Anh’s Olfactory Archive (Project 1: Housing as a Body), which examines the olfactory profiles of urban spaces as sketches, this research is to align with the atelier’s current preservation work, engaging with the history of the place and the surrounding Cité Falguière site through acts of reading archives, and direct site works & observation while she focuses on sculpting spaces from the invisible yet essential—particularly through scent. The outcome of the project will not only to see history in a different way, but also to shine lights to the invisible labor of running and maintaining spaces for cultural dialogues, as well as to scent - a lesser known data when it comes to archive and anthropologic work. |
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The Path of Pain with Maha Al Daya
Maha Al Daya’s The Path of Pain is an exploration of Palestinian identity, history, and resistance encapsulated in traditions of embroidery. Drawing on Palestinian practices of stitching, she transforms evacuation maps—used by many fleeing Gaza—into visceral depictions of displacement and loss. By embroidering these maps, invoking traditions of mending and acts of care, she symbolizes the endurance and suffering of the Gazan people. Maps are suspended, encased in glass, mirroring the way evacuation orders rained down from the sky. Elsewhere, words displayed on the atelier's walls evoke the graffiti of the First Intifada. Through this project, Maha gathers an honoring of heritage with contemporary struggles, using embroidery as both an act of artistic expression and cultural defiance. I expect the audience to accept the idea, as it will have a positive impact on them and to realize the importance of maps and shed light on traditional Palestinian art by using it in a way other than the usual and familiar. |
This event is co-hosted in partnership with the Columbia Global Paris Center and Institute for Ideas and Imagination with support from the Île-de-France Region
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