The Image That Will Not Go Away: Palestinian Visual Resistance

Curatorial residency and research project exploring modes of Palestinian self‑representation within Western cultural systems and colonial epistemologies. Undertaken with my collaborator and curator Felice Moramarco, the residency combined group study and public events examining Palestinian self-representation as both an aesthetic and political practice. The project engages with the challenges of representing extreme violence and dispossession while addressing the colonial logics of Western cultural systems, currently reinforced by censorship and the silencing of Palestinian voices. It presents and analyses case studies of Palestinian artists and filmmakers who are developing innovative strategies for visual resistance.

The project was the winning entry of the CASE REMAPPED call, open to visual and sound artists, performers, designers, architects, curators, and social and political scientists whose research focuses on experiences of alternative social “islands” — physical or digital spaces inhabited by communities experimenting with radically collectivist forms of coexistence. The residency included a public event, realised at BASE Milano in January 2025.

More info here: https://base.milano.it/en/case-remapped-una-call-per-due-residenze/