Raisa Kabir | Tiger. Tiger, Silk Throat

10th October - 8th November 2025

The exhibition brings together performance video, textiles, and sculpture that address global industrialisation and colonial extraction as the root to ecological crisis. Interrelating material histories of commodities to examine the embodiment and enactment of power, the body as a site of resistance, and motif of queer brown eroticism.

The works situate subaqueous grief, whilst also acknowledging the complex geo-political history. Calling towards the potential capacity for weaving as a methodology to remake and reimagine worlds, created within indigenous architectural low-technology systems and collective futurity

Raisa Kabir is an artist based in London. Kabir uses woven text/textiles and performance to materialise multiple concepts, concerning the interwoven cultural politics of cloth. Kabir’s work draws on textile mobilities, embodied archives, and geographies of anti-colonial resistance. 

Kabir’s (un)weaving performances and tapestries use queer entanglement to complicate structures of power, global networks of production/extraction, and the relationships between craft and industrialised labour.

Kabir has exhibited work at The Whitworth, Liverpool Biennial, Arnolfini, Whitechapel Gallery,  British Textile Biennial, Glasgow International, Australian Design Centre, HH Art Spaces Goa, India. Yorkshire Contemporary. The Craft Council Gallery London, CCA Glasgow, Archive Berlin, Ford Foundation Gallery NYC, Textile Arts Center NYC, and the Center for Craft Creativity and Design U.S.