Mobius Spiderweb is proud to present Rania Kadafour in an online presentation Sunday, October 1 at noon.

Spiderweb envisions the vast number of artists throughout the city of Boston as potential individual threads of a web to which Mobius can connect and then act as a connection point for others.

From Rania: My artwork is centered around my personal experiences. It combines my memories, aspects of my identity, and reflections on my past and current relationships.

I use textiles, photos, found objects, paint, and embroidery to translate these ideas into my work.

A particular concept I’ve been focusing on recently is using the memories of objects to corroborate my own memories. An example could be trash, such as a receipt or a paper ticket, with a significant date on it. Many of the symbols I incorporate I have strong, specific, and secretive meanings to only me or a small handful of people.

My work is comprised of intimate moments in my life, so I am constantly looking for a balance between what information I make readily available to viewers, versus the information that I need viewers to think and ask questions about before they can have it. The hidden parts of the work can evoke fruitful and meaningful discussion around the work, which is especially important to me as an Afro-Arab woman artist working in a predominantly white space. I want my work to be a driving force of vulnerable discussion (no matter how little someone understands the topic), to avoid the ways in which art can be plainly consumed with little contemplation.

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Each presentation is followed by a lively group discussion.