Ghada AmerNO EMPIRE LASTS FOREVER, 2025
‘No Empire Lasts Forever’ (2025) belongs to a recent body of work that incorporates textile techniques, text and political slogans. The composition is organised through a dense arrangement of multicoloured rectangular forms that vary in scale and orientation, producing a complex grid-like structure across the canvas. Made with cotton appliqué attached on canvas, Amer employs a technique where pieces of fabric are stitched or pasted onto the canvas. Even within her technical practice Amer is upending hierarchies and stereotypes; textile having commonly been deemed as a domestic, feminine craft. The words themselves reference a quote associated with writer Krishna Udayasankar, reflecting on the inevitability of the rise and fall of political powers. Amer alludes that no political system or empire is permanent, scattering this illusion that global political powers require us to believe.
