November 2025- February 2026

Textile Museum of Canada

Maqamat is the result of a six-month study of sacred geometries found in Egyptian mosques and churches, translated into 3D-printed new media sculptures and a projection-based installation.

Encased in vacuum-sealed plastic and brought to life through projection, each sculpture emerges from a cumulative 273 hours of 3D printing—preserved yet in motion, static yet continuously reanimated.

By merging historical patterns with a diasporic lens, Maqamat unfolds as a sequence of sculptural forms, each marking a stage within an ongoing journey. The works navigate transformation, belonging, and identity, while channeling a maximalist, almost brutalist interpretation of inherited visual language.

The project proposes heritage not as something fixed, but as something lived and reshaped—held not only in architecture and ornament, but in the gestures, voices, and reinterpretations that continue to redefine it.

curated by @icnicastro

documentation by @w1tchdog and @sameshanedifferentday

project supported by Ontario Arts Council