Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme in Conversation with Adam HajYahia | Activity
For the opening of the exhibition Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedomthe artists will discuss their research for the installation that is the core of the exhibition, focusing on the songs, poems and everyday acts of resistance of prisoners.
To open the exhibition, artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme will be talking to Adam HajYahiawriter and curator.
Abbas and Abou-Rahme work with apparently incidental narratives, figures, gestures and spaces as material to reimagine the possibilities of the present and ultimately to question what it is and what it could be. Firsthand recordings, testimonies and stories of former prisoners build upon the artists’ expansive archive and are layered with poems and prose examining detention and freedom, resilience, and the fight for justice within regimes of occupation and oppression.
By layering and sampling audio-visual materials that are both existing and self-authored, the artists create what they refer to as “new scripts” or “poetics of resistance”, which investigate the political, visceral and material possibilities of sound, image, text and site.
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MACBA Thirty
We celebrate Year Thirty of an infinite MACBA that projects the future as a space for revision and possibility: of taking up what was left unfinished, updating what needs it and projecting anew everything that can still be transformed.
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From February 13 to June 28, 2026
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom
