Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
By Charlotte Stace
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom is the duo’s first exhibition in Spain. It’s a powerful, research-led exhibition that treats sound, image and storytelling as forms of resistance. Based between New York and Ramallah, these Palestinian artists have been collaborating together since 2007 across image, sound, text and performance.
At the centre of this exhibition is an immersive audiovisual installation shaped by their recent research into the resilience of former Palestinian prisoners, drawing on songs, poetry and everyday acts of resistance. Firsthand recordings and testimonies are layered with text and archival material, building a poetic but politically direct meditation on detention, freedom and survival under oppression.
Presented alongside earlier works, the exhibition traces nearly two decades of practice and a sustained focus on memory, dispossession and struggles against oppression in Palestine and beyond.