Inside Qamīs
From fibre and thread to textile, cut and assembly.
The shirt gives Fragmenta N°2 a way to investigate a larger system of making. Materials, tools, industrial processes and skilled gestures connect the garment to people, places and histories across the Eastern Mediterranean.
Material origins
Fibre, thread, weaving, dyeing and the conditions that shape textile production.
Construction and detail
Collars, cuffs, seams, buttons and patterns reveal how a garment takes form through decisions of proportion, structure and assembly.
Contemporary interpretation
Designers, architects and artists explore what the shirt can become through objects, installations, space and material experimentation.
Maker dialogue
Workshops, machines, techniques and specialist hands bring the processes of making into view, alongside questions of how knowledge is learned and transmitted.
Memory and archive
Garments, images, collections and the traces held in places allow us to consider what is remembered, transformed or carried forward.
These are interconnected lines of inquiry, not a prescribed route through the exhibition. The programme extends across six locations, including the Kassem Sugar Refinery main exhibition, Exhibitions in Dialogue, a Research Site and Living Knowledge visits.
