Lana Khayat Featured in Elle Magazine
Elle Magazine recently profiled artist Lana Khayat, offering readers an intimate glimpse into the threads, thoughts, and textures that shape her practice. The feature explores Lana’s deep-rooted relationship with material, from silk and linen to pigment and stitched line, and how her work becomes a quiet yet powerful rebellion against rigidity, speed, and silence.
In the interview, Lana opens up about her evolving studio process, a space of both experimentation and ritual, where the back of the canvas is often as telling as the front. She speaks of thread not only as a medium, but as a language: one that binds memory, place, and identity with every knot and pull. Her approach challenges conventional notions of what is finished, what is feminine, and what is seen.
The piece also touches on the philosophical undercurrents of her work, how acts of weaving, mending, and layering become gestures of resistance and repair. It’s a portrait of an artist who invites us to slow down and feel the presence of time in material, to find beauty in the unfinished, and to listen to what softness has to say.