Hadeyeh Badri is a designer and textile artist based in Dubai, shortlisted for the V&A's Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics in 2021. In this short film, Hadeyeh describes how her weaving practice pays homage to her late aunt, Shahnaz Badri.
Shahnaz was diagnosed with Parkinson's in her thirties, and Hadeyeh became her carer in the final years of her life. After Shahnaz's death, Badri used weaving to speak to her – drawing on the diaries that Shahnaz left behind. Hadeyeh's textiles integrate her handwriting, notes, doodles and paintings into the body of the fabric.
Hadeyeh's weavings are inspired by a trope in pre-Islamic poetry called wuquf 'ala al-atlal or 'standing by the ruins', which involved a poet visiting a destroyed architectural site or place of mourning and reanimating it through language. Hadeyeh's weavings can be understood in this vein as intimate, imperfect monuments to Shahnaz. Although they appear delicate, on the brink of unravelling, they are designed to be remarkably resilient.
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