This section presents Abed Abdi’s memorial monuments — powerful public artworks that commemorate historical events and embody collective Palestinian memory in physical form. Most notably, Abdi designed and built the Land Day monument in Sakhnin, commemorating the six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces during the 1976 protests.

As art historian Tal Ben Zvi notes, “Abdi’s Land Day monument was the first public memorial erected by a Palestinian citizen of Israel — a groundbreaking act of remembrance that inscribed Palestinian history and grief into the Israeli civic landscape.”

Through these sculptural monuments, Abdi not only honored the past but claimed space for Palestinian presence, resistance, and cultural narrative in the public sphere.