THE DEMOS CENTER OF ACG PRESENTS: MATERIAL WITNESSES CURATED BY DR. TAMARA CHALABI

In Material Witnesses, clay and textile speak not as components, but as quiet archivists of the human condition. These elemental materials, earth and thread, have silently traveled through millennia, carrying the weight of memory in their folds, fractures, wrinkles and weaves. At the Demos Center, they return to us reshaped by contemporary hands, yet loudly pulsing with ancestral rhythm. Here, the artists do not merely craft; they listen, allowing their chosen mediums to recall stories of migration, kinship, loss, and continuity. Each vessel, each strand, is both a fragment and a flame: something salvaged, something sacred.