Stasis

Raya Kassisieh

15 October ⁠–⁠ 23 December 2025

Installation view of Stasis: a suspended black textile sculpture beside a white fireplace, surrounded by woven canvases and paintings.
  • ResidencyInaugural residency, autumn 2025
  • OpeningWednesday 15 October 2025
  • VisitingBy appointment after the opening

About

Stasis was the final presentation of Raya Kassisieh’s residency at Gallery 44, the first in the house. The exhibition brought her study of material, form and transformation to a close.

Stasis unfolded between stillness and movement, weaving together material, memory and form. Through a process of revisiting and reworking her own painted canvases, Raya Kassisieh deconstructed and reconstructed them into visceral new compositions. Goat-hair roses and woven canvases turn memory into form.

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Process & material

Raya Kassisieh reaches up through a suspended arrangement of branches while working in the studio, with woven canvases behind her.
Raya Kassisieh at work, 2025.
Close-up of black fibres and stitching in a leaf-shaped textile form from Stasis.
Stasis, 2025. Material detail.

Selected works

  • Strips of painted canvas woven into a dense patchwork of reds, greens and blues, with loose ends hanging below.

    “Into the red eye, the cauldron of morning.” 2025

    Woven mixed media on canvas 160 × 110 cm Availability on request Enquire by email
  • A painting of tangled purple branches over a warm orange ground.

    A sunken rust-red, 2025

    Oil and acrylic on canvas 70 × 50 cm Availability on request Enquire by email
  • A woven painted canvas with long black strands of goat hair hanging to the floor.

    “Pour of tor and distances”, 2025

    Woven mixed media on canvas and goat hair wool 130 × 140 cm Sold
  • Dark woollen leaves draped over a steel point on the wall, with long goat-hair strands hanging below.

    Tongues of rose, a lip of flame (Thorn Throne), 2025

    Oil, wool, goat hair and steel Approx. 130 × 50 × 20 cm Sold
  • A pale canvas covered in branching lines of charcoal, green and red.

    The trees of the mind are black (Chalcot Square), 2025

    Charcoal and oil on canvas 160 × 110 cm Availability on request Enquire by email
  • A small woven canvas in muted pinks and greens with black woollen fringes.

    This Dark Thing, 2025

    Woven mixed media on canvas, goat hair and wool 64 × 25 cm Sold

Exhibition photography

10 photographs

Event details
  • Wed 15 Oct 2025, 6–8pmOpeningOpen 10am–8pm, with drinks from 6pm.
  • Autumn 2025Closing eveningFriends, collectors and guests gathered in the house to mark the close of the residency.

Films

All films

Press

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