Unbroken Threads: Creative Resistance for Palestine
Partner Programme
21 — 22 Sept 2024
Architecture / Landscape, Multi-Disciplinary Design
Inhabit Hotel
25-27 Southwick St
.Tyburnia,
.London
W2 1JQ
This exhibition dives into Palestinian culture and heritage, highlighting its resilience amidst war and displacement. Multidisciplinary artworks showcase personal stories, architectural analysis, and powerful statements against erasure, with workshops and talks that explore art, design, and Palestinian culture.
'Unbroken Threads: Creative Resistance for Palestine' is an exhibition curated by the Royal College of Art Palestine Society for this year’s London Design Festival. It showcases the exceptional work of current students and recent graduates whose projects engage with Palestine, featuring 23 works from solo & collaborative artists. Documentarian and personal, the work proposes Palestine as an urgent touchstone of our times as artists and creative practitioners, reflecting on both the challenge and urgency of producing work within the context of the ongoing conflict. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight Palestinian culture and heritage, bringing to light its endurance amidst the violence of displacement and colonialism. The artists have also endeavoured to think of a decolonial future and engage in imaginaries of resistance, building on a Palestinian present that struggles against erasure. The show features artworks from various disciplines from across the college, including City Design, Architecture, Communication Design, featuring mediums including sculpture, 3D models, print and textiles. The works take a variety of approaches to articulate forms of creative resistance to the deliberate erasure of Palestine from mainstream narratives. Among these approaches, the show hosts works which evoke personal family stories through maps and VR, inviting the viewer to sit with Palestinian history in different times and spaces. Other works hold sculptural objects to document spiritual, cultural and environmental connection to water and its weaponisation by Israel, whilst other pieces revive the histories of the city of Nablus & Sebastia through audiovisual archives of oral stories, artefacts & 3D models. Further work invites us to envision hopeful futures, through architectural interventions and appropriate use of AI. Palestine has profoundly transformed us and our work, and we aim to highlight how these experiences have shaped our creative expression. The exhibition will also include a series of talks from participating artists.
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