Tatreez Transformations in concert

This performance takes place within the exhibition Threading Memory: Tatreez Transformations and offers a chance to experience the works through sound as well as sight. Oud musician Rihab Azar will perform live among the embroidered pieces on display, creating an atmosphere shaped by both the instrument’s resonance and the surrounding artworks.

The session reflects the exhibition’s grounding in Syrian and Levantine cultural traditions, placing Azar’s music alongside the embroidered works created in collaboration with artists from Alsama Studio. Through shifts in tone, repetition, and the spaces between notes, the performance introduces a slower, more attentive rhythm within the chapel, giving visitors space to absorb the exhibition.

Rather than explaining the artworks, this performance offers a parallel moment of attention—an opportunity to pause, listen, and let sound guide a different kind of engagement with themes of making, memory, and movement across the Syrian and wider Levantine contexts represented in Tatreez Transformations.

This event is part of the Cambridge Festival.