This work has been kindly donated by the artist

Huda Lutfi is a historian and artist who works in a wide range of media, including collage, assemblage, painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video. She is interested in the physicality of materials as well as the symbolic associations imbued within them. By recycling, re-appropriating and re-imagining objects outside their original context, Lutfi subverts the political, cultur𒉰al and economic systems that produce meaning. Her frequent use of feminised objects such as dolls, thread, mannequins and magazine clippings conveys her artistic as well as ♍academic interest in constructions of masculinity and femininity.

Entropy (2021) is a hand-embroidered work that invokes feminine traditions of craftsmanship and honours the labour involved therein. While this mode of creation is traditionally practised communally amongst women, Lutfi reverts to solitariness. The labour of stitching and sewing thus takes on a more selꩲf-reflec⛄tive meaning. Toying with the possibilities of entropy, Lutfi’s tapestry is informed both by the meticulousness of intention and the joy of experimentation.