Feda

Feda Eid, Plantcestors, 2025 36 x 24 inches | 91.44 x 60.96 cm. Archival pigment print Edition of 10 From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا,” on view until tomorrow! Join us tomorrow, Sunday, October 26 at 2pm for a final closing reception and celebration featuring an artist talk and dance performance with Feda Eid and Jassi Murad. #fedaeid #jassimurad #felixbonfils #plantcestors #levantinetextiles #swana #orientalistphotography #contemporaryphotography #bostonphotographygallery #bostonartgallery

الهام جذورنا Rooted Revelations, filmed @massmoca museum and Mass MoCA studios during my residency last summer with @assets4artists with the help of @carolina.picante and @anthonyenjoysstuff <3 First time I am dabbling with video in my work.

Join us for the closing reception of "Made in USA" @eliotschoolcraft 2023 Artist in Residence @fedaeid exhibition. . Saturday August 26, 5-8PM . Enjoy food, music, community and get your portrait taken by the artists! . August 18-27, 2023 . Gallery Hours: Fridays 6-8PM Saturdays 12-5PM Sundays 12-5PM . #art #arte #kunst #tesodency #diversity #community #communitygallery #artistcommunity #curation #finearts #localartists #galleryhours #gallery #southend #lowerroxbury #boston #bostonarts #newengland #newenglandarts #freeadmission #pianocraftguild #pianocraftgallery #pianofactory #openingreception #events #madeinusa #eliotschool #fedaeidphotography

Plantcestors serve as powerful conduits of cultural preservation, ancestral remembrance and future guidance. They become a balm during healing, scattered during grief and a reminder of renewal during growth. In collaboration with Palestinian contemporary dance artist Jassi Murad @_mnfath_ and Dabke group @nahdaproject , join us in this ritual performance of Plantcestors. The performance allows the community to experience the sounds, smells and plants from the Levant including poetry from ancestor and Lebanese writer Khalil Gibran who grew up in the area. Special thank you to artist Justin C. McIntosh @just1pin who helped recreate the historic Syrian Grocery Importing store sign, and other fun surprising props for the performance. Bostons historic Little Syria which was located in parts of Chinatown and the South End. Much of this community was forced to leave during urban developement and the creation of the mass turnpike which opened in 1957. Please check out all the performances too! RSVP! Starting at 1pm @paoartscenter curated by Sung-Min Kim @skimmilk.png and Wenxuan Xue @innerchildsings “six artists will be responding to and caring for site-specific histories of Boston Chinatown through water calligraphy, dance, storytelling, and more. Participants will start their journeys at Pao Arts Center where they will be given a map and a schedule to walk around Chinatown and visit the performances. We invite you to find refuge and meditate on the deep histories embedded in the neighborhood.” Joanna Tam @joanna_tam , Lani Asunción @lani.asuncion , Yolanda He Yang @yolandaheyang_arts , Ying Ye @ye_ying_ye , Anita Yip @project.asian.joy

Happening next Sunday at the Civic Pavilion, hope to see you there!

Meet our current capacity-building artists! Feda Eid, a Lebanese diaspora visual and performance artist, is a member of our 2025 Boston cohort. Her work explores the expression of heritage, culture, identity and often tense but beautiful space between, what is said, what is felt, and what is lost in translation. Feda’s work “Plantcestors” is included in an upcoming exhibition,“Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams,” on view April 8th-June 19th at Pao Arts Center in Boston Chinatown (@paoartscenter ). Additionally, as part of the exhibition, Feda will be presenting a ritual performance, “Plantcestors, Awakening the Sacred” on May 16 from 1-4pm. “Out of the sacred, out of the spiritual, out of the ancestral and Indigenous, our Plantcestors continue to protect, nourish and connect us to the land, our bodies and our relationship with ritual, death and birth. The land and its beings continue to witness the grief and violence of colonialism and imperialism. Eid draws inspiration from writer Layla Feghali in The Land in our Bones: "the [dabke] song becomes a chance for healing through collective grief” and for “transforming in the soulful vocalization and communal witness– not unlike the bitterness of olives and their leaves in their power to heal us.

Come out for this special exhibition @boscenterforarts curated by the amazing @meclinaart !! This is the second year of my studio residency at the BCA, honored to be a part of this talented group of artists. come out and show some love ❤️ we have open studios on April 10th too if you want to visit my studio!

Inshallah

Late to post these but so grateful to Jassi Murad’s @_mnfath_ for collaborating with me on my closing performance. With our Plantcestors, ritual, movement and all the seen and unseen blessing that moment together. Grounding us to the earth, burial, grief, our martyrs and one another. Thank you to Hank @abakusprojects for the continued support in putting the show together and helping us to sell our benefit prints raising over $2000 in mutual aid to @cactusmutualaid . Thank you to @dalwan1 for allowing us to use her father Mohammed B. Alwan’s collection of original 19th century prints from the Levant region in the exhibit. It was truly a blessing to have all of it come together the way it did.

There is just a little over a week to catch “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا!” Please join us on Sunday, October 26 at 2pm for a closing reception and special event featuring an artist talk as well as a dance performance by Feda Eid and Jassi Murad. All are welcome to attend but please RSVP us at [email protected] or send us a dm here. The gallery will be open this weekend, including on Sunday from noon to 4pm. Images: 1 & 2.) Tancréde R. Dumas, Arab Servant, Beirut, 1889 (from the collection of Mohammed B. Alwan, courtesy of The Estate of Mahammed B. Alwan) 8 x 5 1/2 inches | 20.32 x 13.97 cm. Albumen print 3.) Feda Eid, Coffee-stained, 2019 24 x 17 inches | 60.96 x 43.18 cm Archival pigment print NFS #fedaeid #mohammedalwan #swana #lebanesediaspora #contemporaryphotography #19thcenturyphotography #portraiture #orientalism #orientalistphotography #tancrededumas #arabidentity #levantineculture #bostonartgallery #bostonphotographygallery #abakusprojects

“I am a product of both my mother’s homeland, the fertile crescent, a land of olives and pomegranates, and American culture, like cabbage patch dolls. The overgrowth of cabbage in this patch in Lebanon reminded me of the quinnessential Cabbage Patch Kid doll, my own version of course. My hands over my heart, a pledge of allegiance to nourishing and loving myself.” Image: Feda Eid, Cabbage Patch Kid, 2019 41 x 28 inches | 104.14 cm. Archival pigment print Edition of 10 [email protected] or dm to inquire. From our current exhibition, “Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا.” Now on view through Sunday, October 26. #fedaeid #swana #lebaneseamericanartist #lebanesediaspora #contemporaryphotography #portraiture #selfportraiture #levantineculture #bostonartgallery #bostonartreview #bostonphotographygallery #abakusprojects

Feda Eid: Made in USA, صنع في أمريكا,” at @abakusprojects has been extended through October 26! Through upcycled fabrics, found objects, and heirloom jewelry, Eid reimagines scenes from the Levant in striking self-portraits that draw on a red, white, and blue palette. Her work explores Muslim Arab identity while confronting the orientalist gaze of 19th- and early 20th-century European photographers, whose images she references and reclaims. Concurrent with the show, Abakus Projects is hosting a mutual aid print sale, offering two prints to help raise money for Cactus Mutual Aid, a Boston-based grassroots fundraiser. Visit abakusprojects.com to learn more. _ Making Rose Water Out of Roses, 2023 © Feda Eid, Courtesy of Abakus Projects