Maryline Nassar Al Hayek is a visual and textile artist based in Norway. Her practice moves between textiles, illustration, photography, and digital art, often bringing together different materials and ways of making. With a background in fine arts and a Master’s in material based art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, she is interested in the tactile, experimental, and personal side of making. Her work has been presented in projects including Weaving Winter Weather and Walk Wicked. Alongside her own practice, she works with art and education, and has a background in photography, illustration.
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كلن يعني كلن. (All of them)
I work between fragments of place, time, and memory. Lebanon and Norway appear not as fixed locations, but as different temporal conditions—one carrying traces of war, childhood, inheritance. the other marked by acceleration, technology, and the digital present.
A floral Persian carpet pattern becomes a point of departure. I place a childhood photograph beneath it on a light table, allowing the two images to interfere with one another. Pattern obscures the photograph; the photograph interrupts the pattern. Memory becomes layered, fragmented, and partially inaccessible.
Through weaving, this encounter is translated from image into material. The photograph becomes textile. The inherited pattern becomes a field in which personal memory can be reconstructed, distorted, or lost. What begins as an image becomes a surface, and what appears decorative becomes a carrier of history.
The work does not attempt to connect Lebanon and Norway, Instead,it unparallels them . Their temporalities collide, overlap, and disturb one another, producing a space that belongs to neither. Here, past and present, hand and machine, inheritance and technology cease to function as opposites. They become entangled within a third, unstable weaved universe—one constructed through memory, material, and transformation.