Maison Palestine
Glimmer of a Grove Beyond
Opening Reception on, October 10, 2025, from 5 to 7 PM.
Exhibition open from October 10 to November 8, 2025.
Guided Tour & Conference “Posters and Poetry of Resistance” on October 23, 2025, from 5 to 7 PM.
Glimmer of a Grove Beyond explores representations of Palestinian land and natural geography through an array of political posters drawn from the Palestinian Museum’s permanent collection. The collection includes a set of 540 Palestinian political posters, produced between the late-1960s and early-1990s, which were collected and generously donated by the late ambassador Ali Kazak.
The exhibition addresses the notion of landscape and the alterations inflicted on Palestine’s geography, sometimes represented through orientalist photography, and at times as lost geography or as fantasy. Those alterations shaped the political project and ideologies of the day, which in turn were reflected in the artistic and visual languages employed in posters.
Exhibition curated by Adele Jarrar.
Organization
Maison Palestine is a non-profit cultural organization, founded in 2023 in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, on unceded Indigenous territory. The organization is dedicated to the history, present, and future of Palestine, as refracted in the arts, social and political trajectories, and various other contemporary forms of knowledge production in the Palestinian diaspora.
Adele Jarrar (Palestine, 1992) is a visual culture writer and critic. She obtained her BA in architecture from Birzeit University in 2016 and is currently completing her master’s degree in art and cultural management at Leuphana University. Jarrar, whose work is informed by her interest in analysing the power structures underlying imagery, has had wide-ranging experience in design, research, writing, and curation. She was commissioned to write for numerous platforms and magazines, including Lifta Volumes, Institute for Palestine Studies, the Funambulist, 7iber, and the Art Columnist. She has also assisted in curating Cities Exhibition 5: Gaza Reconstruction, and City of whom?, and has recently contributed a story to Reworlding Ramallah: short sci-fi stories from Palestine.
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