Jumana Emil Abboud: The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide

Jumana Emil Abboud’s first solo exhibition in the Emirates draws on the lineage of Palestinian folktales and their continued resonance in the present – how stories inhabit landscapes, shape personal histories and collective memory, and create an enchanted relationship to the landscape.

The works in this show are like traces and fragments left by the tide’s ebb and flow; “they drift across time and geography, fact and mythology, and are grounded in the context of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and return” says the gallery. “Mirroring the exhibition’s title, the tide’s devotion to the moon’s pull and the storyteller’s slow telling prompt the central question of the exhibition: how do we carry light, across oceans, across ruins, across silence, without letting it be extinguished?”

Curated by Indranjan Banerjee. To June 28.

Above: Jumana Emil Abboud, Our Other Half (detail, 2024-2025)