Participating Artists: Adnan Yahya, Bady Dalloul, Elias Kurdy, Elo Vega & Rogelio López Cuenca, Hazem Harb, Jayce Salloum, Lobna Al Sane & Mais Fareed, Mahmoud Alhaj, Mahmoud Massad, Nadine Fattaleh, Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia / WAI Architecture Think Tank, Paloma Polo, Public Works Studio, Rachid Koraïchi, Raed Ibrahim, Salama Younes (Yura Collective), Wesam Al Asali (IWLab), Yara Sharif & Nasser Golzari (Architects for Gaza), and Zara Julius.

In that same hour, neighborhoods are erased, entire families disappear, and fragments become records of what once held life. The archive fills with what should still be here and with what refuses to be forgotten.

In that same hour, a world declares itself without disguise. A world awakens, and a world falls silent. The future being written stands before us. That which follows is reckoned despite its shadow.

We begin in that fractured hour. Artists, through their works, move across places and moments: from ground testimony to the view from above; from intimate grief to the force of technological power; from readings of past to what may yet come.

Held together, the works attempt a portrait of that hour; its questions reaching across every realm.

Featuring nineteen works by artists and collectives from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Algeria, this gathering takes its cue from the worldwide solidarity that has rallied around Gaza over the past two years. In recognition of the global dimensions of what is unfolding, it reaches across borders and positions, inviting collective engagement with the central questions of this moment.

The exhibition extends throughout Darat al Funun's spaces, with works displayed in the Main Building, Al Ghorfeh, the Blue House, and The Lab.

Header image: Yara Sharif & Nasser Golzari (Architects For Gaza), The Power of Invisibles, 2023. Video, 3'54".