A day is as long as a year (2022) and other works

Overview

Through oral documentation, multidisciplinary collaboration and wordplay, Mounira Al Solh bears witness to the impact of conflict and displacement across the region. The collectively embroidered tent A day is as long as a year (2022) replicates the imperial tent of the nineteenth-century Qajar monarch Muhammad Shah and transforms it into a venue of shared empowerment and solidarity for the collaborating female embroiderers, many of them refugees and asylum seekers. Surrounding the tent are portraits of displaced people and migrants the artist interviewed during her research, titled I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous (2014–ongoing). She, they, we all had it with the 99 names of the Flower (2022) is a selection of banner-like tapestries with portraits of prominent women from the Arab and broader Islamic world.