A certain obsession with cleanliness

Support Material

At Her Finest #1, At Her Finest #2, At Her Finest #3, At Her Finest #4

Digital prints on archival rag art paper

each print h 140 cm x w 100 cm

Photography: Aram El Haddad

In Her Finest Triptych, each print h 140 cm x 100 cm Digital prints on archival rag art paper Photography: Ludwig El Haddad

Photo gallery below: The Unbearable Right To See and Be Seen, view of exhibition
Solo show, Curated with curator Luke Letourneau, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Nov. 2023
Photography credit: Document Photography

Trailer of She Rested (2025 - 2026)

A song cycle performance by Aimée Falzon.

Visual art projections by Eddie Abd.

Filmed work in progress by Akil Ahamat.

Trailer edited by Ludwig El Haddad.

Photo gallery below, folded in, Solo exhibition, Curated with Verge Gallery team, 2025

Images credit: Jessica Maurer

folded in‍ ‍

Triptych, 3 Channel video, no sound, loops, 2025

Videography: Kuba Dorabialski

View Video excerpt

a trade off

Triptych framed, digital print on archival rag art paper, 2025

Collaborator and model: Yasmeen El Haddad

Each print 60 cm x 60 cm

Photo Gallery below, killer tongue: i love you, Solo exhibition, Curated with Sabrina Roesner, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 2022

Photo Gallery below, Silk Cuts, NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship - Awarded 2022.

Photo credit: Artspace

Now Look Away, Winner Create NSW Emerging Visual Arts (2022) - excerpt

Now Look Away opens a dialogue around the tension between self-referential image making and the perpetuation of orientalist representations in contemporary visual culture. The work references European 19th century orientalist studio photography and the women led practice of cross stitch embroidery of the Ottoman Greater Syria region. Featuring Ludwig El Haddad and Eddie Abd. Derbakeh by Fady Kassab. Digital art: Eddie Abd Videography: Ludwig El Haddad

Silk Cuts, featuring Palestinian embroidery motif Mulberry of Damascus, Winner Create NSW Emerging Visual Arts (2022) - excerpt

Hazelbrook Woman Dressed in her Finery (with the help of the British Museum) #2 - excerpt

Exhibitd at Blue Mountains Portraits - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre (2022)

Performance and digital art: Eddie Abd

Videography: Ludwig El Haddad

In Their Finest, Winner of Blake Prize - Emerging (2021) - excerpt

In Their Finest explores the conservation of tradition as negotiated by families experiencing instability and living on stolen land. It references long exposure Victorian death portraits and the traditional textiles of Greater Syria. As the video unfolds the notions of practicing tradition and social conformity are challenged by an unexpected turbulence within the Family. Featuring Eddie Abd, Ludwig El Haddad, Yasmeen El Haddad, Aram El Haddad.

Digital art: Eddie Abd

Videography: Ludwig El Haddad