24 April – 19 June
Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland.
‘Ramallah-based Palestinian artist and designer Lara Saloust tells the story of a land constantly repaired by the careful threading of relations between generations, knowledge, and with territory. Palestine appears in Salous as layered with life, culture passed over hand-by-hand, and a proud companionship with the land and its environment. Hand-by-Hand presentsLara Salous’ research of wool-spinning traditions in Palestine, born from her close collaboration with Bedouin shepherd communities. The exhibition narrates the cultural, social and environmental labour performed to fight the dispossession, erasure and segregation perpetrated by the State of Israel against the land and its livelihoods. The artworks portray sediments of histories, movements, and repetitions. This is the stubbornness of self-determination against the genocidal cartography imposed by colonial power.
Salous supports the preservation of Ramallah’s brilliant design traditions, following the movement of people and pastures along routes that are systemically militarised and bulldozed,and exchanging knowledge with elderly women weavers.Hand-by-Hand includes Lara Salous’two award-winning artworks‘What Remains’ and ‘Around their hands’(Contextile Biennale 2024),and a series of new artworks focusing on resistantgeographies, artistry and archival material. Her work reimagines pastoral and weaving traditions through intergenerational learning, mutual aid, and design innovation.’ Curation and production: Micol Curatolo
The exhibition and residency are part of a collaboration between Titanik and HIAP–HelsinkiInternational Artist Programme, with the support of Sumud–The Finnish Palestine Network.
Special thanks to: Sumud–The Finnish Palestine Network, HIAP–Helsinki International Artist Programme, NO NIIN Magazine, Saskia Suominen, Emma Beverley, Anastasia (A) Alevtin, Lotta Anttila, Minjee Hwang Kim, Rose Pietola, Elham Rahmati, Elli Nora Sayyad, Leyya Mona Tawil, Eero Yli-Vakkuri.
photos credit: Johanna Naukkarinen
You can know more about my art practise and the exhibition by listening to the recorded interview with curator Micol Curatolo through the Platform #StopHatredNow 2025, Landing for possible futures, which was streamed on the 16th of May 2025.
Landing for possible futures, which was streamed on the 16th of May 2025.
