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Jordan Nassar Uses Palestinian Embroidery to Imagine Landscapes
Jordan Nassar, a New York-born artist of Palestinian and Polish heritage, is showing new works at No 9 Cork Street in London.
The exhibition is presented by Dubai gallery The Third Line and is his first in the UK in a decade.
Nassar uses tatreez, a Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery, to make imagined landscapes.
He describes them as versions of Palestine held in the minds of people in the diaspora, shaped by stories and imagination.
The works combine colourful mountains and skies with the repeated geometric patterns of embroidery.
Nassar says his interest in Palestinian identity comes partly from growing up in New York; his grandfather migrated to the United States before the Nakba and helped establish an Arab American community in Yonkers.
The exhibition presents these dreamlike landscapes as a way to explore identity, family history and belonging.
Jordan Nassar’s new series of embroidered panels imagines Palestinian landscapes through tatreez, a Palestinian cross-stitch tradition.
The works are on display at No 9 Cork Street in London in a presentation by Dubai gallery The Third Line.
The presentation is Nassar’s first in the UK in a decade.
Nassar describes the landscapes as versions of Palestine held in the minds of the diaspora.
His exploration of Palestinian identity is shaped by his upbringing in New York and his Palestinian heritage.
- Who
- New York artist Jordan Nassar.
- What
- He presents a series of tatreez panels depicting imagined landscapes.
- When
- The presentation is on display in 2026; the article was published on October 11.
- Where
- No 9 Cork Street in London.
- Why
- Nassar says his exploration of Palestinian identity is driven by his upbringing as a New Yorker.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
versions of Palestine as they exist in the minds of the diaspora
They are the Palestine I heard stories about growing up, half made of imagination.
They are dreamlands and utopias that are colourful and fantastical – beautiful and romantic, but bittersweet
Nassar’s paternal grandfather migrated to the United States.
Nassar’s grandfather sponsored the arrival of hundreds of families displaced by the Nakba.
Nassar’s work They Build Homes with Clouds was made.
Nassar’s presentation opened at No 9 Cork Street in London, his first in the UK in a decade.
- Artist
- Jordan Nassar
- Venue
- No 9 Cork Street, London
- Gallery presenting the work
- The Third Line, Dubai
- Artwork
- They Build Homes with Clouds (2026)
- Tradition used
- Palestinian tatreez cross-stitch embroidery
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