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April 28, 2026

Double Distance: Salvage and Presencing (Jaffa)

Al-Mathaneh Gallery in Jaffa invites you to the opening of the exhibition: “Double Distance: Salvage and Presencing”, Featuring the artists: Abid Abdi, Gershon Knispel, and Nardeen Srouji. Thursday, 30/4/2026 at 19:00 Al-Mathaneh Gallery – 25 Salameh Road, Jaffa. Register here: www.al-mathaneh.com/en/events/7 The exhibition examines art as a site of active memory rather than a passive...
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Group Exhibition: “The Lost Paintings” (London, UK)

The Lost Paintings: a Prelude to Return brings the forefront of contemporary Palestinian art to the P21 Gallery in London. After a successful tour in Montreal, Boston and Belfast, we are honoured to display the work of 53 artists from Palestine and the diaspora in London, and offer compelling programming around it. Tracing the memory...
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Recent Works

A Closed Horizon by Abed Abdi, showing two shadows standing before a territory enclosed by barbed wire.
A Fragile Shelter by Abed Abdi, showing a mother holding her three children inside a refugee tent amid destruction in Gaza.
A Cry Without Words by Abed Abdi, depicting a young man in a Gaza refugee camp with wide-open eyes and mouth expressing shock amid destruction.
Original acrylic painting by Abed Abdi depicting photographic negatives with the faces of people from Gaza against a background of destruction.
wounded figure with red background in Abed Abdi A Wounded Silence
Humanist art by Abed Abdi - A mother and her children hide in a fragile shelter during wartime, capturing fear, vulnerability, and resilience.

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