Paths VIII on view now under the AANM Dome
Paths VIII is a large-scale, site-responsive installation by Lebanese-American artist Rania Hassan. Using thread as both material and metaphor, Hassan transforms the gallery into an intricate network of intersecting lines that reflects the many paths our lives may take, and the unseen connections that link us across time.
Part of Hassan’s ongoing Paths series, Paths VIII explores how individual journeys intersect across people, places, and generations. Composed of thousands of hand-knit stitches, the suspended installation invites visitors to consider the relationships between movement, memory, shared experience, and the connections that shape our lives.
Hassan’s work is rooted in the idea that a single thread can hold endless possibilities. Inspired by the act of knitting and the generations of people who have used their hands to create, gather, and sustain community, she uses thread to visualize the ties that connect us to our pasts, one another, and the futures still unfolding.
Rania Hassan is a Lebanese-American interdisciplinary artist whose sculptural installations explore connections to time, place, memory, identity, and community through thread-like forms. Working across sculpture, public art, performance, and interactive kinetic works, she creates site-responsive installations that transform architectural spaces into visual stories of human connection.
Her work ranges from intimate drawings to large-scale suspended installations and public sculptures, including Liminality at the Kreeger Museum and Marker, a 15-foot public artwork in Washington, D.C. Her work is held in the collections of the National Institutes of Health, Amazon Web Services, and DC’s Art Bank Collection, and has been featured in publications including Smithsonian Magazine, TextielPlus, and The Washington Post.
Check out Paths VIII at the Arab American National Museum today.