Extended Shadows

On Consciousness, Body, and Place

Hebron, Palestine
Curatorial Project
2026

Curatorial Statement

Extended Shadows emerges from a Palestinian moment in which existence intersects with erasure — where catastrophe is no longer an exceptional event but a structural condition of everyday life. The exhibition departs from the premise that what is often called “post-genocide” is not an aftermath, but the continuation of catastrophe through memory, discourse, image, and language.

Within the cave space, where light is scarce and time slows down, the very notion of seeing is re-examined — not as visual consumption but as ethical endurance. Violence is not invoked through its images, but through its traces, inviting the viewer to move from looking to listening to what absence leaves behind in body and place.

Four Palestinian artists take part in the exhibition, their practices intersecting around the concepts of trace and shadow as modes of existence in a world that persistently produces absence.