“We saw an endless cycle: Closing programmes With Risham Syed and Umber Majeed

Online Artist Talk with Risham Syed and Umber Majeed Moderated by Rotana Shaker

14 April, 2025

6-7:30pm ( GMT+3)
8-9:30pm (GMT+5)
11am -12:30pm (EDT)

Online Talk

Hayy Jameel presents an Artist Talk featuring artists Risham Syed and Umber Majeed, where they discuss their approaches to exploring changing urban landscapes. Through personal familial archives and collective memories, they examine the transformation of cities, both real and imagined. The conversation focuses on their methods for addressing the fluxus notion of urban spaces, drawing from their works featured in the exhibition ‘We saw an endless cycle’ in Hayy Arts. The talk also highlights the influence of their longstanding mentor-student relationship on their artistic practices and how it has shaped their work.

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The Complete Picture: Zine-making, re-mapping and personal archive workshop with Umber Majeed

17 April, 2025 – 18 April, 2025

17 April, 2025: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
18 April, 2025: 6:00 – 8:45 pm

Project Space, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah

What makes up the history of a city?

Who makes the city?

Can personal archives re-map a city?

Join exhibiting artist Umber Majeed for a hands-on programme as part of the closing of ‘We Saw an endless cycle’ at Hayy Jameel. This two-day programme of workshops  exploring  the bodies, ideas, and histories that are embedded into city infrastructures will draw from Majeed’s artistic practice and research methodologies in exploring cities through familial archives. Participants will learn various artistic approaches to navigating their ideas of a city. The workshops will culminate with participants working together on a collaborative zine that speaks to their own experience and histories of Jeddah.

Participants will be asked to bring in personal objects and photographs that speak to their experience of the city of Jeddah.

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About The Artist 

Risham Syed
Risham Syed (b. 1969, Pakistan) received her MA from Royal College of Art, London and BA from National College of Arts, Lahore, where she studied painting and traditional miniature painting. Risham works in mediums as diverse as drawing, embroidery, painting, weaving and quilting. Her work meditates on modern living at its most ordinary yet refined state. Her art documents changes in urban landscapes and the resultant effects these have on the lifestyle of the inhabitants therein. Risham’s practice critically focuses on the remains of cultural/historical inheritance and its perceived authenticity in present-day Pakistan. In her works, past folds into present through externalization taking the form of objects, which signify or symbolise time and space that is simultaneously intimate, invasive, even violent.

Umber Majeed
Umber Majeed (b. New York, NY, 1989) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in New York, NY and BFA from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan. Majeed has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions both locally and globally, including in cities like Jeddah, Taiwan and New York.