Majd Abdel Hamid
Sea Lines, 2025
Majd Abdel Hamid’s artistic practice is rooted in applying slow, repetitive, performative gestures like embroidery as a counterbalance to high-speed digital image production. Working across video, installation, drawing and sculpture, he explores themes of national identity and trauma. Building off of the artist’s ongoing series ‘Borderlines’ (2017-), his most recent body of work, Sea-Lines (2025) uses thread to plot the maritime boundaries of the Mediterranean Sea. The abstract lines trace the impossible, yet politically enforced divisions of water.
Majd Abdel Hamid is a visual artist from Palestine, who is currently based between Beirut and Paris. He attended the International Academy of Art in Palestine, before graduating from the Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. His solo exhibitions include “800 meters and a corridor”, gb agency, Paris (2022); “Muscle Memory”, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2022); and “A Stitch in Time,” Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès, Brussels (2021). His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including “Splendid Isolation,” SMAK, Ghent (2022); “Répare, Reprise,” Cité International des Arts, Paris, (2021); “Heartbreak,” Ruya Maps, Venice; and “Touché! (gesture, movement, action),” Beirut Art Center, (2019).
