Ghada Amer Reclaims Power With Needle and Thread

Ghada Amer Reclaims Power With Needle and Thread

In art school, Ghada Amer found out a truth that would later become the pulse of her artistic rebellion. The history of art, and especially painting, had long been told by men, for men, she discovered. The realization shaped her life’s work and inspired her to begin embroidering, using thread as her medium of painting.  “I am a painter above all. Thread and needles are my brush,” Amer wrote.  As a child, Amer would go with her mother to buy patt…