Majdulin Nasrallah
Majdulin Nasrallah is a Palestinian interdisciplinary designer and visual artist based in Doha, Qatar. Working across objects, textiles, sculpture and installations, she explores how spaces and materials shape our experiences of identity, memory and belonging. Her background in interior design informs a practice attentive to the emotional and political dimensions of the built environment, particularly in Palestine. Through familiar objects and unexpected material encounters, she gives tangible form to experiences of displacement, resilience and connection. Her work invites us to reconsider the things we live with and the stories they carry.
THE PROCESS
Majdulin’s process brings research into close dialogue with material experimentation. Stories, personal experiences and questions about the politics of space provide starting points for works that develop through testing, making and collaboration. The choice of material is inseparable from the meaning of each piece: its origin, associations and physical behaviour help communicate the ideas she is exploring.
For 1948, she spent more than two years refining materials, pigments and fragrances, using mould-making and casting to translate the Palestinian house key into a candle holder. Hand-poured candles carry scents associated with the Palestinian landscape, including thyme, fig and jasmine. For the limited edition, she collaborated with makers in Bethlehem and Nablus to transform recovered tear gas canisters into metal holders, making the material’s history part of the work itself.
This attention to transformation extends across her practice. In Takkayof (Adaptation), threads remain suspended after their supporting fabric dissolves, expressing the uncertainty and resilience of displacement. In Disorient(al), the visual language of Palestinian embroidery becomes a woven landscape of fragmented routes and architectural barriers. Elsewhere, her glass lantern Flawbulous retains bubbles, seam marks and irregularities produced during making. Across these different approaches, Majdulin allows the properties of materials—and the changes they undergo—to give physical and sensory form to narratives that might otherwise remain abstract.
