The light in between
       
     
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The shadow of every tree
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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Roots in the sky
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
If the olive trees knew
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
Silent dust
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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Where the fig tree cannot be fenced
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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As long as our tears are songs when we cry them
       
     
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Memory tree, 2023
       
     
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Immortal Olive Tree
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
This poem will never be finished
       
     
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Everything touches everything else
       
     
       
     
       
     
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Buried in the knot
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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In most nghts we weep in advance
       
     
       
     
We were wimbs in the wind
       
     
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Buried in the knot
       
     
       
     
       
     
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Buried in the knot II
       
     
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Fold up the prayermat in your flight
       
     
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Wind is the Compass of the Stranger's North
       
     
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Untitled, 2021
       
     
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Work-in-progress Installation
       
     
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Dust to Rust, 2020
       
     
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And nothing but an echo replies, 2021
       
     
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And nothing but an echo replies (Deconstructed), 2021
       
     
I have long forgotten which is the language of my dreams (Left), Looking through an arched window (Right)
       
     
       
     
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Scaffold, 2020
       
     
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WIP studio sample
       
     
Lost and Found (Window studies), 2020
       
     
Untitled, 2021
       
     
       
     
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WIP dye samples
       
     
       
     
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Friday Prayers at D'arba Al Araba
       
     
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Souq Ibn Khaldoun, 2019
       
     
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Prayermat II (Folded)
       
     
Prayermat II
       
     
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Khareeta, 2019
       
     
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Ao2det Al- Khawaja
       
     
Khawaja (Detail)
       
     
Prayermat I
       
     
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Untitled
       
     
Gate, 2017
       
     
Galabeya I
       
     
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Galabeya II
       
     
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Hanging from the butcher's hooks, 2017
       
     
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Untitled
       
     
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The light in between
       
     
The light in between

2024

130cm x 235cm

Hand-dyed textile, Steel

Acquired at Frieze London by the Arts Council Collection, made possible by the Arts Council Collection Frieze Fund.

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Dust that never settles
       
     
Dust that never settles

2024

130cm x 235cm

Hand-dyed textile, Steel

Acquired at Frieze London through the CAS Collections Fund at Frieze 2024 for The Hepworth Wakefield

       
     
       
     
       
     
The shadow of every tree
       
     
The shadow of every tree

2024

280 x 480cm

Hand-dyed textile, Steel

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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The shadow of every tree (Installation)
       
     
The shadow of every tree (Installation)

2024

280 x 480cm

Hand-dyed textile, Steel, Cement

Exhibition at Art Basel Statements, with Union Pacific Gallery

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
Roots in the sky
       
     
Roots in the sky

2024

250 x 300cm

Hand-dyed textile, Steel

Currently showing at the Biennale Arte di Venezia 2024: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere curated by Adriano Pedrosa

Open until 24 November 2024

Fig trees belonging to the artist’s grandmother in Benghazi, Libya lend their poetic impetus for the three textiles displayed in the Biennale. Strongly attached to place, trees hold and embody memories. Jaouda recreates their botanical elements through cloth she deconstructs, dyes in earthen tones, and resews into sculptural tapestries. She draws from the personification of olive trees by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in conceptualization and title. Threading these works are notions of rootlessness and resilience, destruction and regeneration, and timelessness. The vegetal dyes possess their own force and unpredictability to activate the work. Jaouda’s sumptuously layered fabrics reverberate with colors at once deep and ethereal, shadowy and luminescent, as infinitely textured as memory itself.

Jessica Gerschultz

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
If the olive trees knew
       
     
If the olive trees knew

2024

250 x 300cm

Hand-dyed textile, Steel

Currently showing at the Biennale Arte di Venezia 2024: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere curated by Adriano Pedrosa

Open until 24 November 2024

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
Silent dust
       
     
Silent dust

2024

250 x 300cm

Hand-dyed textile, Steel

Currently showing at the Biennale Arte di Venezia 2024: Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere curated by Adriano Pedrosa

Open until 24 November 2024

       
     
       
     
       
     
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Where the fig tree cannot be fenced
       
     
Where the fig tree cannot be fenced

2023

Fabric dye on canvas, Steel, Cement

Install shot at solo exhibition Where, if not faraway, is my place?’ at Union Pacific Gallery, London

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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Untitled

Cement

36cm x 22cm x 8cm

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If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them
       
     
If the olive trees knew the hands that planted them

Fabric dye and pigment of canvas, Steel

170cm x 80cm

2023

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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Untitled

2023

Cement, Steel

40cm x 22cm x 8cm

Where the fig tree cannot be fenced
       
     
Where the fig tree cannot be fenced

2023

Fabric dye on canvas, Steel, Cement

Three-part installation

Install shot at solo exhibition ‘Where, if not faraway, is my place?’ at Union Pacific Gallery, London

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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As long as our tears are songs when we cry them
       
     
As long as our tears are songs when we cry them

2023

23cm x 15cm x 3cm

Cement

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Blindspot
       
     
Blindspot

Fabric dye and pigment of canvas, Steel

170cm x 80cm

2022

       
     
       
     
       
     
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Memory tree, 2023
       
     
Memory tree, 2023

Cement, Fabric dye

22cm x 36cm x 4cm

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Immortal Olive Tree
       
     
Immortal Olive Tree

2023

Cement, Steel

       
     
       
     
       
     
This poem will never be finished
       
     
This poem will never be finished

Fabric dye and pigment of canvas, Steel

170cm x 80cm

2022

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Everything touches everything else
       
     
Everything touches everything else

Fabric dye and pigment of canvas, Steel

170cm x 80cm

2022

       
     
       
     
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Buried in the knot
       
     
Buried in the knot

Fabric dye and pigment on canvas, Steel

150cm x 70cm

2022

       
     
       
     
       
     
       
     
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Buried in the knot
       
     
Buried in the knot

Fabric dye and pigment on canvas, Steel

150cm x 70cm

2022

       
     
       
     
       
     
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In most nghts we weep in advance
       
     
In most nghts we weep in advance

2021

Concrete

37x28cm

       
     
We were wimbs in the wind
       
     
We were wimbs in the wind

2021

Concrete

30x28.5cm

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Buried in the knot
       
     
Buried in the knot

Fabric dye and pigment on canvas, Rebar Steel

150cm x 70cm

2021

       
     
       
     
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Buried in the knot II
       
     
Buried in the knot II

Fabric dye and pigment on canvas, Rebar Steel

150cm x 70cm

2021

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Fold up the prayermat in your flight
       
     
Fold up the prayermat in your flight

Fabric dye, pigment and acrylic on canvas, Rebar Steel

270cm x 150cm

2021

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Wind is the Compass of the Stranger's North
       
     
Wind is the Compass of the Stranger's North

2021

Fabric dye, pigment and acrylic on canvas, Steel, Concrete

300cm x 250cm x 250cm

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Untitled, 2021
       
     
Untitled, 2021

Hand-dyed cotton, Copper

Currently showing at FOLD Gallery

SOCIAL FABRIC is open until 10th July 2021

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Work-in-progress Installation
       
     
Work-in-progress Installation

Fabric dye, pigment and acrylic on canvas, Steel

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Dust to Rust, 2020
       
     
Dust to Rust, 2020

Fabric dye, pigment and hand-embroidery on canvas, Steel

250 x 145cm

Install shot at San Mei Gallery, ‘Thought Threads’

Thought Threads is a group exhibition of textile-based works by artists Nour Jaouda, Emily Moore and Gal Leshem. The exhibition proposes a dialogue around the artists’ shared focus on materiality and the tactility of fabric as means to approach a diverse set of concerns including cultural identity and notions of belonging.

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And nothing but an echo replies, 2021
       
     
And nothing but an echo replies, 2021

Fabric dye, pigment and hand-embroidery on canvas, Steel

270cm x 100cm

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And nothing but an echo replies (Deconstructed), 2021
       
     
And nothing but an echo replies (Deconstructed), 2021

Fabric dye, pigment on canvas, Steel

I have long forgotten which is the language of my dreams (Left), Looking through an arched window (Right)
       
     
I have long forgotten which is the language of my dreams (Left), Looking through an arched window (Right)

2020

Acrylic, fabric dye, hand-embroidery on printed canvas, Steel

This textile installation was exhibited at the WIP exhibition at the Royal College of Art.

       
     
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 'Looking Through an Arched Window' (Detail)
       
     
'Looking Through an Arched Window' (Detail)

Acrylic, fabric dye, hand-embroidery on printed canvas, Welded steel

       
     
Scaffold, 2020
       
     
Scaffold, 2020

Low-relief ceramic, steel

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WIP studio sample
       
     
WIP studio sample

Mixed media. Arcylic, fabric dye, pigment on printed canvas.

Experimental samples of different textures, pigments, dyeing and mark-making techniques.

Lost and Found (Window studies), 2020
       
     
Lost and Found (Window studies), 2020

‘There is no ceiling for the wind, no home for the wind. Wind is the compass of the stranger's North… He says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here’ Mahmoud Darwish on Edward Said

Acrylic, ink and watercolour on paper

21cm x30cm

Untitled, 2021
       
     
Untitled, 2021

Colour experiments, Fabric dye and pigment on canvas

30 x 40cm (Left) 50 x 70cm (Right)

       
     
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WIP dye samples
       
     
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Friday Prayers at D'arba Al Araba
       
     
Friday Prayers at D'arba Al Araba

Printed canvas, acrylic, fabric dye, steel, concrete

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Souq Ibn Khaldoun, 2019
       
     
Souq Ibn Khaldoun, 2019

Fabric dye, acrylic, pigment and hand-embroidery on cotton and printed canvas

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Prayermat II (Folded)
       
     
Prayermat II (Folded)

2017

Printed canvas, acrylic, hand-embroidery, clay

Prayermat II
       
     
Prayermat II

2017

Printed canavs, acrylic, hand-embroidery

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Khareeta, 2019
       
     
Khareeta, 2019

Printed canvas, acrylic, cotton fabric, hand-embroidery, 6 buttons

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Ao2det Al- Khawaja
       
     
Ao2det Al- Khawaja

Dolphin Gallery, 2018

Printed canavs, acrylic, clay, steel, bread basket, hand-embroidery

Khawaja (Detail)
       
     
Khawaja (Detail)

2018

Bread Basket

Prayermat I
       
     
Prayermat I

2017

Printed canvas, acrylic, fabric dye, hand-embroidery, clay

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Untitled
       
     
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Hanwoven Mohair cotton, wool, wax, fabric dye, hand-embroidery

Gate, 2017
       
     
Gate, 2017

Acrylic on printed canvas

Galabeya I
       
     
Galabeya I

Printed canvas, fabric dye, cotton, steel

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Galabeya II
       
     
Galabeya II

Printed canvas, acrylic, fabric dye

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Hanging from the butcher's hooks, 2017
       
     
Hanging from the butcher's hooks, 2017

Printed canvas, cotton, acrylic, dye, hand-embroidery

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Clay, Wool

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Printed canvas, acrylic, fabric dye, wire

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