In Weaving Space, Qinza Najm reclaims the Persian carpet—not as decor or heirloom, but as a charged surface of memory, labor, and transformation. Once walked on, now hung, these domestic textiles become sites of excavation. Najm intervenes directly onto their surfaces, hand-painting gem-like forms that shimmer with both vulnerability and defiance.

These faceted shapes—meticulously layered and rendered—recall geology more than ornament: forms shaped under pressure, revealing what is buried, compressed, or cracked open over time. Floating across distressed textiles and fragmented canvas, the gems resist perfection. They hold tension—between rupture and resilience, beauty and burden.

Through this alchemy of gesture, materiality, and cultural inheritance, Najm transforms the carpet into a kind of psychic terrain: intimate, worn, radiant, and uncontainable. Her process collapses the boundaries between craft and critique, creating space for fractured identities to be held—visible, unstable, and deeply human.