Learn about Zahra Almajidi’s inspiration and artistic practice. Join her for an intimate conversation about her exhibition on view. As a visual artist raised and based in Detroit, her work explores the ways in which objects and adornment allow displaced people to continue to uphold and practice their craft traditions while living in the diaspora. She is a 2025 Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient, powered by Gilbert Family Foundation.
At its core, Almajidi’s body of work investigates the following: How do we build upon the craft traditions of our ancestors? How do we in the diaspora effectively look towards a future, while still holding space for a culture that has been prevented from organically moving into the 21st century?
How do one reckon with the imposed destruction of the ecosystem and material conditions of a culture that has existed for 5000 years? How do we immortalize our existences through objects whose origins we can only sense, whose histories are fragmented yet persist in collective memory?
Above all- how does one’s crafted objects challenge the conditions of loss to reassert presence through material and form?
Casting the Net
On view through October 3, 2026 at PLAYGROUND DETROIT.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zahra Almajidi is a visual artist raised and based in Detroit, MI. Her work explores the ways in which objects and adornment allow displaced people to continue to uphold and practice their craft traditions while living in the diaspora.
