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Nour Hage • نور الحاج

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Going Underground.

My favourite thing when I used to take the tube in London was to check out these little posters entering and exiting the stations. It showed me a glimpse of what was happening in London at the time and the cool things I could see/do. What a feeling to be up there now.

Thank you @aryanak for this amazing surprise today (I had completely forgotten they were going up this week).

If you happen to see more of these across the London tube network in the next couple of weeks please send me photos!

Kheit is on display @leightonsambournemuseums till July 16th in collaboration with @arabbritishcentre and @barakat_org . taken in Charing Cross Station by @nourhage_

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3 years ago

For Nour Hage @nourhage_, fabric is often a starting point for something more personal.

Her works carry family memories, childhood beliefs and traces of home. In one, she used medical sutures after becoming a mother. In another, her grandmother’s clothes became part of a digital portrait.

Let’s take a closer look at four works and the stories behind them. by @nourhage_

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Nour Hage @nourhage_ used to show collections at Paris Fashion Week. Then she realised the research behind the clothes was the real work.

The Lebanese artist began in fashion, launched her own label in 2013 and found an unexpected audience in Japan. But the questions behind each garment kept pulling her somewhere else: why an abaya looks the way it does, how textiles carry memory, and what women’s histories can reveal when you actually give them space.

In our interview, Nour talks about growing up between Riyadh and Beirut, leaving fashion for contemporary art, and why she once buried fabrics in her grandmother’s garden in South Lebanon.

Read mode on sandytimes.ae by @nourhage_

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2 months ago

Summer in no particular order by @nourhage_

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خلال إقامتها الفنية في المجمّع الثقافي، تتأمّل الفنانة نور حاج نهجاً إبداعياً يتشكّل من الذاكرة والمادة والإرث الثقافي.

في أعمالها المعتمدة على النسيج والتلوين الطبيعي، تستلهم تقنياتها ومعارفها من إرث عائلتها، ولا سيّما من جدّاتها ووالدتها. وبالنسبة لها، لا تُعدّ النباتات والتوابل والنيلي مجرد مواد لونية، بل عناصر تحمل دلالات أعمق، تفتح من خلالها باباً لاستكشاف أنظمة المعتقدات في غرب وجنوب غرب آسيا.

ويواصل عملها طرح أسئلة حول الأصل والنية، كاشفاً القصص المتجذّرة في فعل الصنع، وكيف ولماذا تستمر هذه الممارسات عبر الزمن.

During her residency at Cultural Foundation, Nour Hage reflects on a practice shaped by memory, material, and cultural inheritance.

Working primarily with textiles and natural dyeing, her process draws from techniques and knowledge passed down through her family, especially her grandmother and mother. For her, materials such as plants, spices, and indigo carry meaning beyond colour, becoming a way to explore belief systems across West and Southwest Asia.

Her work continues to ask questions of origin and intention, uncovering the stories embedded in making and why these practices endure.

#المجمّع_الثقافي #ثقافة_أبوظبي #في_أبوظبي
#CulturalFoundation #AbuDhabiCulture #InAbuDhabi⁩ taken in Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation by @nourhage_

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May. by @nourhage_

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4 months ago

Meet the artists of Under the Same Sky
@artbytala @sara.alsulaimani @nourhage_
@adrianscicluna @karineroche and more!

Curated by Meena Vari @varimeena

🗓️Friday / 22 May 2026
📍Rizq Art Gallery, Leaf Tower, Abudhabi

#rizqartinitiative #artexhibition #artgallery taken in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates by @nourhage_

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It’s been sad to say goodbye to my Abu Dhabi studio after six months of having a space that helped me push beyond my comfort zone. Thank you @shammaabdalla_ and the @abudhabicf for the space and the freedom to explore. by @nourhage_

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When my grandmother – my teta – passed away at the end of 2024, I was unable to go and say goodbye. Lebanon was under heavy Israeli bombardment, and I was mother to a child who had only just turned one. I couldn’t be there to care for her while she was sick. My son and his great-grandmother never got to meet, never got to hold hands.

In early January this year, I returned to my teta’s garden in south Lebanon to try, in some small way, correct that injustice as part of a new body of work. As part of the process, I buried pieces of textile in her garden. The act of burial itself felt essential: digging into the soft earth beside her vegetable patch while my son ran across the dew-covered grass.

When I buried those textiles, I did not know that the gesture would take on new meaning months later. The land they were buried in is now once again under threat of Israeli violence and renewed invasion. Our town was occupied by Israel until 2000, and while that threat edges closer, we remain far luckier than those living further south.

What began as an act of mourning for a person who was like a second mother to me has now become a mourning for something larger – a motherland.

By placing these pieces of cloth in the earth, I wanted to carry a fragment of my grandmother’s world into my work. Now I find myself in another country, holding these unearthed pieces in my hands, working them into whatever they will become. I am saving every grain of soil still clinging to them as though it were the most valuable thing I possess.

I think about never seeing my grandmother again. I think about never seeing her garden again.

But I also remember that my grandparents and my parents lived through the first occupation and stood their ground. And we will stand tall again on our land.

This short film is part of a wider series from that place that means so much to me, including a longer video work called The Burial.

Director @nasri.atallah
Creative Producer and Editor @joyceoskaa
Director of Photography @charbel.deeb

Work made possible as part of my ongoing residency at @abudhabicf

Shot in January 2026 in Kaytoule, south Lebanon by @nourhage_

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7 months ago

My piece ‘Study of a Cypress Tree’ is currently on view until June 21 in Madrid part of Al’Qala at the @realfabricatapices .

The piece is an ode to one of the most enduring motifs in Palestinian tatreez: the cypress tree, a symbol of resilience, steadfastness, and hope. Across the piece, the tree moves through stages of abstraction, gradually shifting form while retaining its presence, much like inherited memory, carried and transformed across generations.

Within Al’Qala, the work enters into dialogue with historical Palestinian garments and contemporary reinterpretations of tatreez. The exhibition traces Palestinian embroidery as both archive and living practice.

‘Study of a Cypress Tree’ was created in collaboration with @inaashassociation who support craftswomen in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Part of the ongoing @thesilaproject by @kiyanart by @nourhage_

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5 months ago

Big news for the region: Alserkal @alserkalavenue and Design Miami @designmiami are partnering to launch a new collectible design platform in 2027 — rooted in Dubai and shaped for a global audience. A flagship fair and year-round programs will spotlight regional voices in conversation with the world.

This year, Design Miami also brought an impressive lineup of talents from the Middle East, presenting work that bridges heritage, experimentation, and contemporary design. Keep an eye on them → by @nourhage_

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10 months ago

Thrilled to be debuting a new series of works at @designmiami with @friendsartspace - on show until December 7 booth C19 alongside great artists and designers @aspen_golann @joannadbloom @treyjones_studio @mdotcallahan @kawabi @theju.nimmagadda

𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿, 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆
Piñatex, wool, cotton thread

Rooted in the belief that black protects children from the malevolent gaze of the evil eye, the work draws from traditions in which dark cloth, garments, or kohl markings serve as shields creating confusion and protection. In this series, the interplay of soft and coarse textiles woven, braided, and layered evokes both the tenderness and restlessness of childhood.

And they stayed together, happy continues the narrative first introduced in Running around mother, happy (2022), an ode to my mother and titled after a line from an Arabic lullaby she sang to us as children.

This new body of work shifts focus to the bond between siblings, reflecting on shared resilience and intimacy.

Created in 2025, the three pieces explore what it means to be one of three - to remain together, and to remain whole - through moments of adversity and care. by @nourhage_

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