23 Oct –
15 Nov 2026
Presentation: Notes on a Returning Landscape
From 23 October to 15 November 2026, Framer Framed hosts the presentation Notes on a Returning Landscape, displaying the outcome of artist Areej Ashhab’s work as part of the 2026 ArtsLink International Fellowship. The presentation explores the relationships between land, memory and ecological resilience.
Areej Ashhab is an artist, researcher and architect whose practice attends to land, material knowledge and collective learning in contexts shaped by colonial violence and structural fragmentation. The presentation Notes on a Returning Landscape showcases several bodies of work by Ashhab and her collaborators from Al-Block Collective – a group dedicated to counter-mapping the Palestinian landscape through collective walks – and Al-Wah’at Collective – a collective committed to growing communal practices in ecologies typically regarded as hostile.
The presentation traces the evolution of Ashhab’s practice, examining the impact that walking has had on her work. Inspired by the book Palestinian Walks by Palestinian lawyer and activist Raja Shehadeh, which documents decades of walking through the vanishing landscape of the West Bank, she contemplates how this landscape returns again and again through material and elemental cycles.
Through walking, textile work and her bond with plants and natural elements, Ashhab explores the relationships between land, memory and ecological resilience. Drawing on the histories of Palestine and other geographies, her works trace how landscapes hold traces of displacement, colonial histories and collective knowledge. She explores the ecological and socio-political significance of plants, such as the prickly pear cactus and cochineal insect. Bringing together material research, traditional practices, and elemental processes, Ashhab’s work reflects on cycles of growth, adaptation and return, while exploring different ways of relating to and caring for the land collectively.
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The residency is part of the 2026 ArtsLink International Fellowship, organised by CEC ArtsLink, with Hyde Park Art Center and Framer Framed as host partners. The ArtsLink International Fellowship supports artists, curators and arts leaders in developing community-engaged practices through transnational research, exchange and collaboration. In 2026, Areej Ashhab is hosted jointly by Hyde Park Art Center and Framer Framed, with her in-person residency taking place in Amsterdam.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; and Municipality of Amsterdam.
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Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093KS, Amsterdam
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Presentation: Notes on a Returning Landscape
Join artist Areej Ashhab and curator Mariela Acuña for a conversation about walking as an embodied research method
Artist Talk: Hydropolitics of Occupation
As part of the finissage of Wild Waters, Framer Framed organises an artist talk with Jumana Emil Abboud and Areej Ashhab on the significance of water in the Palestinian landscape
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Mariela Acuña
