MCCCLXXXVI, 2025, is a textile work by Dala Nasser, created on the occasion of her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel.
The edition comprises hand-dyed textile fragments, colored with terracotta clay, ash, indigo, walnut shells, and black tea—materials intimately tied to the landscapes and histories of southern Lebanon. Each piece bears the marks of Nasser’s performative process of inscribing memory into material: through soaking, rubbing, and the slow infusion of pigments that are both soil and story.
The fabrics originate from the same body of work as those featured in Xíloma. MCCCLXXXVI, Nasser’s immersive installation at Kunsthalle Basel. As fragments of a larger whole, they echo a lost architecture—the now-destroyed Church of St. Christopher—whose outlines are reimagined in the exhibition through a skeletal wooden framework.
This limited edition functions as a tactile echo of the installation. It translates reflections on loss, memory, and cultural displacement into a form that may be carried. Not a relic, but a quiet trace of a place that can no longer be entered.