Gathering
COOPER COLE•Mar 21, 2025 — Apr 26, 2025
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COOPER COLE is pleased to present Gathering, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Hangama Amiri and Melissa Joseph.
Through fibre, cloth, and the intimacy of handwork, both artists trace the ways memory lingers – how it clings to fabric, how it eases with time, how it sharpens like the first taste of something long forgotten.
Across the works presented in this exhibition, food appears as both subject and symbol—a conduit for memory, a site of intimacy, a language of belonging. Joseph’s felted compositions soften archival images of family memories related to shared meals, transforming them into dreamlike impressions of family, diaspora, and time’s quiet erosion. Amiri’s sewn textiles reconstruct intimate scenes of dining tables, celebrating spaces where cultural identity is prepared, consumed, and passed down. In her works, food is both nourishment and nostalgia, a reminder of places left behind and those reimagined in new...More
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Gathering
COOPER COLE•Mar 21, 2025 — Apr 26, 2025
Press Release
COOPER COLE is pleased to present Gathering, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Hangama Amiri and Melissa Joseph.
Through fibre, cloth, and the intimacy of handwork, both artists trace the ways memory lingers – how it clings to fabric, how it eases with time, how it sharpens like the first taste of something long forgotten.
Across the works presented in this exhibition, food appears as both subject and symbol—a conduit for memory, a site of intimacy, a language of belonging. Joseph’s felted compositions soften archival images of family memories related to shared meals, transforming them into dreamlike impressions of family, diaspora, and time’s quiet erosion. Amiri’s sewn textiles reconstruct intimate scenes of dining tables, celebrating spaces where cultural identity is prepared, consumed, and passed down. In her works, food is both nourishment and nostalgia, a reminder of places left behind and those reimagined in new...More