Casting The Net: Zahra Almajidi Solo Exhibition

Presented by PLAYGROUND DETROIT, “Casting The Net," fine artist and metalsmith Zahra Almajidi’s debut solo exhibition, traverses the spaces of constructed memory and contradictory materiality. Employing both analog and digital fabrication methods, her design objects, jewelry, and digital prints ask the question: How does one build upon the craft and design traditions of their ancestors to forge a connection to their displaced culture?

This question manifests as a colorful, figurative and ornamental visual language that transforms space into a site of confrontation. Adorned with design objects inspired by the imagery in the Marsh Arab rugs and other cultural objects, the exhibition functions as a speculative act of world-building instead of focusing on a past systematically erased. “Casting The Net” insists on projecting a future that both references and expands upon a dying craft and material culture.

Zahra Almajidi is a visual artist raised and based in Detroit, Michigan. Her work explores the ways in which objects and adornment allow displaced people to continue to uphold and practice their craft traditions while living in the diaspora. She is a 2025 Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient, powered by Gilbert Family Foundation.

On view through October 3, 2026 at PLAYGROUND DETROIT.

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