House of Spider Silk: Opening Night

Sunday, Jun 14

4:00pm – 6:00pm

PTET

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Free Parking at ROWDTLA

Friday Gallery presents 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘬, a group exhibition bringing together seven Pakistani artists exploring the invisible structures that hold us: the quiet architectures of body, land, ritual, and memory. Join us for an opening reception with karak chai on Sunday June 14th from 4-6pm. With works by: Farida Batool Naiza Khan Sara Khan Kishwar Kiani Seher Naveed Risham Hosain Syed Masooma Syed Curated by Muzzumil Ruheel — Not everything that hold us is visible. Some structures live in memory and ritual. Some in body and land. Some in the spaces we move through without noticing, and the intimate objects we carry close. We inherit them before we can name them. House of Spider Silk explores the unseen structures that bind, bond, and sustain us: quiet architectures that hold us together, and sometimes harden around us. Across textile, sculpture, photography, and painting, the works move between intimate and collective forms of holding. The artists reveal the strength of these tender forces through precise and gestural explorations of line, boundary, perception, and form. Borders shift with perspective, mental structures are frozen into metal scaffolds, submerged landscapes drift in and out of memory, and sacred objects take on mythic charge. The works share a language of restraint, intention, and attention: asking us to slow down, look deeper, and look beneath. Every gesture, fragment, and material carries weight. Beneath the exhibition is an unspoken thread: the fragile space between being held and being bound. Too little and we drift untethered. Too much and we can’t breathe. Every attachment has a price. The question is how much we are willing to give. — FRIDAY GALLERY Friday Gallery is a Los Angeles-based gallery and cultural salon series dedicated to brave contemporary voices from the Global South. Through seasonal exhibitions, cultural salons, interdisciplinary programming, and cross-cultural collaborations, the gallery creates space for new cultural narratives that bridge geographies, histories, and perspectives. Each Friday season is anchored in a rotating theme, with the exhibition, events, and partnerships bound together in a shared spirit. From South Asian minimalism, to the surrealist visions of feminist Iraqi photographers, to queer gothic brujas in Mexico, Friday exists to peel back old divides and celebrate the cultural voices of tomorrow. Our name (جمعة) comes from the Middle East tradition of honoring Friday as a time of connection, presence and reflection in community. Friday is a home for the forever curious, hungry to see the world with new eyes.

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