Upcoming Event
The Last Basket Makers from Risa - Fadhel Mourali
London based artist Fadel Mourali is coming to the shop to talk about his new book - The Last Basket Makers from Risa: Crafting a Plural Kinship along Tradition (Published by Set Margins' 2025).
From a local tradition coming out of a small historical world to a tradition involved in a vast queer-worlding of making,The Last Basket Makers from Risa refers to a lineage of artisans producing the enigmatic Hedared basket—from Lennart, the basket’s first ‘last maker’—to Lennart’s great-grandson, Fadhel Mourali. This is his report on an open-ended process of identifying and crafting the material of kinship.
Crafty, personal, and entangled with tradition, Fadhel’s research and own making share stories out of and surrounding the rural community of Risa—the former home of his great-grandfather. Here, a dialogical and productive patchwork unfolds, exploring tradition, evolution, and adaptation. This process—akin to queering—includes expected and unexpected entanglements of care and rooting.
Mourali will be joined by curator Marcia Harvey Isaksson, who contributed to this book.
The talk will begin at 16:00. Seats are limited so do show up in time if you need one.
Saturday October 4 16:00
