A Love Song for Whitechapel
Public Artwork Commission
Launching October 2024
‘A Love Song for Whitechapel’ is the title of my upcoming public artwork commission for Whitechapel.
It draws from the intergenerational insights of local groups within Whitechapel, from which I will collectively plot a social history of the East End and map their shared roots in Whitechapel.
The final artwork, commissioned by Tower Hamlets Council and curated and produced by UP Projects, will be a light focused piece that presents local history in a contemporary setting, and is set to be installed on Whitechapel High Street later this year.
BOOK PUBLICATION
Highly Strung
2022
Upcoming launch of 365 limited edition copies in large format of my latest large scale installation Highly Strung. For more information or to reserve your copy, please contact a member of the Athr team.
Highly Strung is a durational body of work, which explores notions of motherhood, domesticity, and the invisibility of a woman’s labour. Produced over 365 days, Haidar made a record of an act of invisible labour she accomplished, one for every day of the year.
These mundane acts are the sum of her every day, as mother, wife, caregiver, and woman.
Each act has been carefully embroidered onto an item found within the home and presented, literally, Highly Strung on washing lines.
Haidar repositions the domestic space as a political site exploring its relationship to artistic work, repetition, care work, paid/unpaid, cleaning, parenting, and the working body.