This work was produced as part of For the Unsettled World to Come, an intervention by Bilna’es with Yara Abbas, Nora Akawi, and Fawz Kabra. The project gathers illustrations and artworks made in the summer of 2021, during a period of mass rebellion in Palestine and abroad. As one of twenty-three posters in the series, these works call to globalize the intifada, making the Palestinian uprising one for all people struggling against entangled systems of oppression and dispossession. Read more
Lamia Abukhadra is a Palestinian American artist currently based in Beirut and Minneapolis. Using Palestine as a microcosm of urgency and resistance, she embeds speculative frameworks, intuited from practices present long before the settler colonial project, which bring to light intimate and historical connections, poetic occurrences, and generative possibilities of survival, mutation, and self-determination. Lamia graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in interdisciplinary studio art in 2018 and is a 2019-2020 Home Workspace Program Fellow at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut as well as a 2021-22 Jan Van Eyck Academie Resident in Maastricht.