HODA TAWAKOL

Born in London (1968) and raised primarily in Paris, Hoda Tawakol is a Franco-Egyptian artist who currently lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. Tawakol’s practice is built on the twin pillars of wit and criticality. Her colourful, engaging works, encompassing hand-dyed and sewn textile pieces, mixed media sculptures, fabric collages, paper works and and installation, ripple with vitality while tackling compelling issues of gender and bodily control. Her approach to contemporary textile art is deeply rooted in the feminist movement of the 1970s and attempts to deconstruct symbols and archetypes that obstruct female agency. Captivating and disarming, the works spring from a range of media, yet focus largely on the female body: its distortions and transformations across a woman’s life. In a universe of transformation, the body forever hovers between physical and ethereal, reality and abstraction, presence and absence.