• FARIN : FOREIGN

  2025

WOVEN DIGITAL JACQUARD

Copper, Natural dyed silk: Moringa, sorrel, turmeric, mohair, recycled PET, cotton, Viscose, lurex

Sugar cane

Scent Design by Ezra Lloyd Jackson

•Farin is a layered exploration of healing, generational, ancestral, and personal, through textiles rooted in her experience as a Black Caribbean British queer woman of the Diaspora.

She weaves stories of trauma recovery and care, into fabric using natural dyes such as sorrel, moringa, and turmeric, materials that carry ancestral knowledge and quiet acts of care. Metal copper threads weaving anti-inflammation and energy balance, echo healing traditions from home.

Healing, in this context, is neither linear nor singular. It is layered, shaped by what we inherit both consciously and unconsciously, and by what we choose to confront or unlearn. Being foreign in both in place, mind and body.

Inspired by moments of softness and stillness in London and her first visit back home to St. Vincent in 2023, this work holds memory, movement, and resilience, with Madras patterns honoring Caribbean heritage and resisting archival erasure.

Supported by Talent 25, Somerset House

Supported by RCA Virgil Abloh Foundation

in collaboration with the TextielLab, the TextielMuseum’s professional workshop