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Jumana Emil Abboud

Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian-Canadian artist whose practice explores cultural memory and resilience; re-spiriting folklore and interconnected gatherings. She works through drawing, video, textual practice, votive assemblage, spoken word, and the Water Diviners project – where stories are living entities, entangled in water and relation.

Most recently, her work is featured in Framer Framed’s exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and And Deltas After Modernity (2026) on the inextricable links between water, colonial expansion and territorial exploitation.


Exhibitions


Exhibition: Wild Waters

Curated by Àngels Miralda, the exhibition examines water as both a life-sustaining resource and an instrument of political power

Agenda


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
Opening: Wild Waters. Dams and Deltas After Modernity
Opening of the exhibition Wild Waters, featuring a performance by sound collective GalalaLive