Raisa Kabir

Raisa Kabir, Gather your spools. Let your hair down for me. Gently. Here. Undo., 2021. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by CCA Glasgow. Photo by Jules Lister

Raisa Kabir, Gather your spools. Let your hair down for me. Gently. Here. Undo. (Installation), 2021. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by CCA Glasgow.

Raisa Kabir, Build me a loom off of your back and your stomach..., 2018. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by Angela Dennis

Raisa Kabir, Build me a loom off of your back and your stomach..., 2018. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by Angela Dennis

Raisa Kabir, Gather your spools. Let your hair down for me. Gently. Here. Undo., 2021. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo by CCA Glasgow. Photo by Jules Lister

Raisa Kabir (b.1989, UK/Bangladesh) is an interdisciplinary artist and weaver based in London. Kabir utilises woven text/textiles, sound, video, and performance to materialise concepts concerning the cultural politics of cloth, gendered archives, and colonial geographies. Kabir’s (un)weaving performances and tapestries comment on histories of trans-national power, global production, and matrixes of labour. Her textile works uses a queer theory of entanglement to weave discourse around disability, resisting function and the queer racialised body as a living archive of collective trauma. 

She has participated in residencies and exhibited work internationally at, among others: The Whitworth, The Tetley, Glasgow International, Craft Council London, Ford Foundation gallery NYC; and has lectured on her research at Tate Modern, Institute of Contemporary Art London, The Courtauld, and the V&A.

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