Textile Elements

In Lana Khayat’s practice, textile elements become vessels of memory and emotion. Silk flowers, delicate, hand-placed, drift across her canvases like pressed remnants of a garden long vanished. They are not ornamental, but intentional: quiet offerings that speak of tenderness, impermanence, and care. These materials blur the boundary between painting and object, surface and sculpture.

They recall ancestral gestures, mending, stitching, preserving, and transform the canvas into a living textile, woven with trace, scent, and time. In Khayat’s hands, fabric becomes a language of intimacy, soft, persistent, and deeply rooted in the natural world.