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Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

Kunstinstituut Melly

until
06
Sep
2026
18
Apr
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06
Sep
2026
partner
Kunstinstituut Melly
location
Rotterdam
year
2026
discipline
visual arts
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Basel Abbas en Ruanne Abou-Rahme create multimedia installations that engage the politics and poetics of anti-colonial resistance while tracing struggles against dispossession and oppression in Palestine. Working together since 2007, their practice combines moving image, sound, and text to explore how histories of resistance are carried across time.

Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom draws on a process of study: learning with and from former Palestinian prisoners, poets, revolutionary thinkers, and the many practices of refusal that continue to shape daily life in Palestine. Through this approach, the installation traces connections across generations, approaching resistance as an ongoing practice of study while acknowledging a broader indebtedness to those who have resisted before us.