Samira Vogel
Samira Vogel is a weaver, artist and educator from Switzerland, based in Amsterdam, where she is currently pursuing a Masters at the Sandberg Instituut. She previously studied Art and Design Education at the Zurich University of the Arts and Textile Design at the Srishti Institute in Bangalore, India. She uses weaving not only as a material and carrier of stories but also as a method and a tool to think through different processes of making and being. Treating textile as both an artistic medium and a space of communication, Samira explores the nature of collectivity by creating interactive weaving installations.Together with Anna Garcia Gomez, Siwar Kraitem, Ola Allaf, Sadiqeh Eftekhhari Danesh and Fiyori Estinfanos Dawi she hosted a workshop that viewed, tasted and reclaimed traditional and popular food cultures.
