KT Abadir-Mullally
Mahshi~ Stuffed Grape Leaves, 2025
Collage
Edition 1/20
13" x 17"

Artist Statement

Mahshi~ Stuffed Grape Leaves is a taste of home. We spend hours washing the leaves, blending the vegetables, folding the meat and rice to create the stuffing mixture, filling and rolling the mahshi and finally packing them tightly together to be boiled in chicken broth with tomatoes and lemons. We put our labor, love and joy into the dishes we've spent a lifetime experiencing with our families of the Egyptian diaspora. As queer people going through the motions of creating a celebratory meal we reclaim Coptic tradition, warmth and community.

Artist Bio

KT Abadir-Mullally is a Coptic-American installation and social practice artist based in Philadelphia. As an artist and archivist who works in digital preservation, they are curious about the movement of information and how much or little control we have over what is remembered or forgotten. Through sculpture and relationship building, their work debates the fragileness of our modern cultural production and the desire for ideas and information to die. Their research dives into fear, hybridity, queerness, collective thinking, grief, and cultural loss.

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