As part of UK’s Refugee Week, the Socially Engaged Art Salon (Brighton) in collaboration with Bilna’es and Printed Matter (New York) is showing at the BMECP Centre and online the exhibition For the Unsettled World to Come.
BMECP Centre, 10/A Fleet Street, Brighton BN1 4ZE
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm
The exhibition highlights the daily and continuous struggle of Palestinians, who are the world’s oldest unsettled refugee population and who fled or were expelled from their country over the course of the 1947–49 Palestine war and the 1967 Six-Day War. In 2019, more than 5.6 million Palestinian refugees were registered with the United Nations.
The exhibition, initially curated by Bilna'es* and exhibited at Printed Matter** NY in 2021 showed works of twenty-three artists from around the world calling to globalize the intifada, making the Palestinian uprising in honour to all people struggling against entangled systems of oppression and dispossession.
Mobilizing networks of solidarity and resistance, these artworks have been shared, hashtagged, and circulated globally in the fight against oppression and colonialism. The artists included are from Palestine and beyond, with each contribution amplifying the Palestinian resistance to displacement and the ongoing struggles within occupied and divided lands.
With contributions by: BLKMOODYBOI, The International Imagination of Anti-National Anti-Imperialist Feelings, Haneen Nazzal, Darina Jabr, Golrokh Nafisi, Lena Siksik, Lamia Abukhadra, Haitham Haddad - Studio MNJNK, Mooni Studio, Fana’ Collective, Data for Black Lives (designed by Studio 45 Turbo), June LS, Haitham Ennasr, Layan Attari, MaryAnn Jaraisy, Samir Harb, Wendy Elisheva Somerson.
*The initial exhibition was curated by Bilna’es (‘in the negative’ in Arabic) with Yara Abbas, Nora Akawi, and Fawz Kabra. Bilna’es is a‘disciplinary’ publishing platform that supports artists in Palestine and beyond. — bilnaes.com. The title of this project is borrowed from Lamia Abukhadra’s For the Unsettled World to Come (2021)
** Printed Matter, Inc., the world’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books. The posters are available for purchase in limited quantities from PM’s online shop. Proceeds from sales will be donated to alQaws, a Palestinian grassroots organization advocating for LGBTQ communities and sexual & gender diversity in Palestinian society. Retail is $20 each.
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BLKMOODYBOI
BLKMOODYBOI is a Non-binary trans Afro-Indigenous self taught illustrator that centres Black and Brown trans people in their art. Their practice is based solely on collectivity/ community, lived experience and the power of the proletariat. Understanding art as a collective process of knowledge sharing and reciprocity. A tool for revolution. (@Blkmoodyboi ) Purchase print
Darina Jabr Darina Jabr is a 22-year-old visual artist born and based in Jerusalem who enjoys making animations, posters and illustrations. (@darinajabr) Purchase print
Data for Black Lives (designed by Studio 45 Turbo)
Data for Black Lives is a movement of activists, organizers, and scientists committed to the mission of using data to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people. @data4blacklives @45turbo Purchase print
Fana' Collective
Fana' is a collective based in Ramallah, Palestine. The name comes from multiple roots in the Arabic language, one being the annihilation of the self or the re-birth of the new self in Sufism. We aim to deconstruct and deproduce truth in social, philosophical and cultural activity. We wish to uncover the processes in which ‘things’ are created or uncreated rather than only posing the end product of these ‘things.’
@fana.collective Purchase print
