In a land where history remains fragmented and narratives severed, Nasri Sayegh approaches his practice as a way to reassemble what resists erasure. A Lebanese-French visual artist, writer, DJ, embroiderer, and performer, he works across photography, video, embroidery, text, and objects to interrogate the construction and deconstruction of memory. Excavating archives – family, official, and beyond – he composes visual constellations that evoke an atlas or cabinet of memory. Central to this process is embroidery, which Sayegh envisions as both a suture and a queer gesture of reparation, weaving delicately between absence and recollection, amnesia and resistance. His multidisciplinary works propose a fragile museum where text and image, stitch and pixel converge.

Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and Rubaiya Qatar, Qatar Museums with generous assistance from Australian Tapestry Workshop and Weaver, David Pearce.