Exhibitions
Rosalind Nashashibi: painting as memory and resistance in the face of the tragedy of Gaza
Artium Museoa presents Get Me A Stone, an exhibition where the British-Palestinian artist explores exile, violence and the persistence of humanity through painting and film.
Art as a space for memory, resistance, and reflection is the central theme of Get Me A Stone , the new exhibition by Rosalind Nashashibi (London, 1973), on view at Artium Museoa until November 1st. The exhibition brings together a selection of paintings created between 2021 and 2026, along with the film Occupation of The Inner Life (2026), works born from the artist's profound emotional and political engagement with the reality of the Gaza Strip.
With Palestinian and Northern Irish family roots, Nashashibi has maintained a constant connection to Palestine throughout her career. However, in recent years she has sought a pictorial language capable of translating her feelings and perspective on the conflict into images that transcend documentary narrative. Her works do not merely reproduce the visible violence, but rather construct a symbolic space where sensitivity, memory, and the experience of displacement find a form of expression.
In her paintings, the stones that give the exhibition its name become a powerful symbol of resistance. The hands that hold them evoke the primal gesture of opposition to domination, while the mineral element acquires a dual dimension: it is the material from which the everyday spaces of life are built, but also the element from which the response to occupation and injustice arises.
The artist also establishes a constant dialogue with the history of painting, understanding composition as a reflection of the historical times that give rise to it. In this sense, the act of painting becomes a way of inhabiting the distance imposed by exile and of preserving that which remains even when territories, homes, and bodies are traversed by violence.
The exhibition unfolds a universe of absent presences: beds, clothing, fabrics, or the acronym of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) appear as traces of an interrupted daily life, fragments of a collective memory that refuses to disappear.
Alongside the paintings, the film Occupation of The Inner Life establishes a link between the artist's creative process and her family sphere, revealing how personal affections and political commitments intertwine in artistic practice.
Curated by Catalina Lozano, Get Me A Stone uses symbols and metaphors to approach the reality of Gaza, but its scope transcends a specific territory: it raises a reflection on the fragility of existence, the persistence of memory and the contradiction of a humanity capable of creating beauty while living with the destruction of its own kind.
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