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"An exhibition of contemporary artist Nour Jaouda’s textile practice: a syncretic combination of painting, sculpture, and installation that materializes as ‘landscapes of memory'. Her intricately layered surfaces reveal fragmented narratives from her Libyan childhood and diasporic navigation between Cairo and London, examining cultural identity as a perpetually unfolding process."
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A event held at Spike Island on Saturday 27th September. The event starts at 12:00.
Jaouda’s fluid, multi-layered textile works traverse the languages of painting, sculpture and installation to produce ‘landscapes of memory’. The forms, colours and motifs within her intricately textured surfaces gesture towards different encounters across time and space, drawing on the artist’s childhood in Libya and experiences of living between Cairo and London. New commissions for Spike Island’s large-scale galleries continue Jaouda’s exploration of cultural identity as an ongoing process of becoming.
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
The exhibition is produced with generous support from Foundation Foundation, The Elephant Trust and the Nour Jaouda Commissioning Circle: Alia Al-Senussi, Maria Sukkar, Lukas Zueger-Knecht and those who wish to remain anonymous.
This exhibition is open at Spike Island until Sunday 18 January 2026
Spike Island is open every Wednesday to Sunday, 12–5pm. Free entry
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS
The exhibition is produced with generous support from Foundation Foundation, The Elephant Trust and the Nour Jaouda Commissioning Circle: Alia Al-Senussi, Maria Sukkar, Lukas Zueger-Knecht and those who wish to remain anonymous.
This exhibition is open at Spike Island until Sunday 18 January 2026
Spike Island is open every Wednesday to Sunday, 12–5pm. Free entry
Entry requirements: no age restrictions