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The iconic arches of Beirut, standing tall for the city's memory
Trifora, We Design Beirut 2024. In the heart of the city, an installation that captures its essence through the iconic arches: a tribute to collective memory and a celebration of the soul of Beirut.
Fifteen tongue-in-cheek tapestries against the bored apes
A limited collection handcrafted to confront the immaterial world of blockchain with Bokja's own Monkey Business characters: real, tactile, sustainable, and valuable for their scarcity and one-of-a...
A dilapidated Beetle, dressed in a patchwork of clashing fabrics
Bokja's debut installation, every swatch lovingly upholstered onto the car, was bought by Angela Missoni, with proceeds to the children of Haiti through the Fondazione Francesca Rava.
An open call to keep the little champions buzzing
Bokja Bees, 2011. A crusade for the endangered honeybee: a series of sculptures raising awareness of their disappearance.
A world and its people forever on the move
Migration, 2012. Compelled by the new reality around us: the phenomenon of packing up your belongings and becoming a displaced journeyer in search of a new beginning.
A sofa as a collection of stories, pieced together
Conversations, for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010: a sofa not as a final object but as a vibrant collage of fabrics in which conversations between time and place emerge, and live on beyo...
Lebanon shall prevail and flowers will bud everywhere
Thawra Map, 2019. Through stitch and hope Bokja tunes, records and revolts, capturing the revolution in a grand map of our beloved country. Koulouna lil wattan.
Toyota Qatar Tapestry Installation
Every stitch an act of preservation: The Land Keepers
Designed by EcoRove and brought to life by Bokja, a triptych of Lebanon, Palestine and Syria whose beekeepers, herders, foragers and farmers persist under siege: a quiet refusal to let their lands ...
The first of twenty-eight tapestries, one for each letter of the Arabic alphabet
With Lara Baladi, the word Nature embroidered for Lost in the Right Direction among the ruins of Deir el-Qalaa. The River of Life is a commentary on the Anthropocene and a renewed, more integrated ...
Upholstered tyres, in a country that burns them in the street
We are T'y'red, 2012. A play on being tired: motor tyres dressed in signature assemblage textiles, pacifying the political message of the street riot while keeping its poetic symbolism.
A mashrabiya in soft cloth, not lattice wood
Mashrabiya, 2015. The veiled surface of the Islamic home, reinterpreted as modular, adjustable textile units whose malleable nature speaks of openness, autonomy and transparency in a world where wa...
Four hundred embroidered flags, a heraldry for Beirut
For Marwan Rechmaoui's Blazon, first shown at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Bokja embroidered the flags and shields that assign invented symbols to the city's neighbourhoods, streets, landmarks and histori...
An anamorphic landscape, born from a tree that broke through a cemetery
For We Design Beirut 2025, stories unfold only when you move and look again: a breathing body wrapped in dyed, stitched, torn and repaired fabric, suspended between decay and bloom.
A tableau of abundance, this table woven with love
The abundance of the Lebanese land has always shaped our table: a feast to the eye and to all the senses, and a place of gathering where family and friends share laughter, stories and traditions.
A boxing ring for the ring of life: what anguish drives your anger?
Conceived as a boxing ring with a central punching bag and onlooking cushions, the installation invites anyone to confront our most urgent issues and ties every visitor's written ribbon to the bag:...
The Arab Fall in imported jeans, the Arab Spring on an antique rug
Two maps of the region, 2012. One where imported fads and fast foods have replaced timeless traditions; one whose dilapidated rug still carries the core values any new beginning should rest on, and...
Five totems of stacked poufs, five female attributes
Women, Women, Women, 2013. Each totem is upholstered with textiles gathered from around the world and stands for one attribute: independence, empathy, compassion, nurturance and strength.
The map of Lebanon, hung as a punching bag
Hanging On, 2011. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Phoenicia Hotel, a cartographical installation inspired by Beirut's pre-war glory days: raw and vulnerable, turning a critical eye on our selec...
Spheres of dictators, and a day when there will be none
An installation of spheres, each depicting a dictator from around the globe, presented with a twist of dark humour in parallel with the nursery rhyme The Little Indians: a warning about the timeles...
