An immersive installation shaped by lullabies an laments gathered across geographies. The Thread Between Us brings together voices from Palestine, Italy, Ireland, Afghanistan, Greece, Congo, and Russia.
Each song was captured as it would be sung to a child or to the dead, never performed - only offered.
The space is intentionally raw, built from salvaged speakers, old screens, and a hanging curtain filled with Arabic.
The fabric carries words written with spray paint and reminiscent of graffiti tags,like ،بيت، دار، سكن، مسكن speaking to home and belonging while others
أمن، وأمان follow “safety” and “security”, terms often used by institutions like the Palestinian Authority or international bodies, yet are hollow in our reality under occupation.
Their repetition becomes ironic yet still a piece of resistance.
Written three times,احتلال “occupation” with “state” دولة are present, haunting refrain of the echoes we are trapped inside.
The Thread Between us is made to feel the contradiction of language and lived experience. Lullabies nurture future generations as laments grieve what has been taken, both disappeared and in death. Threading them together, they hold tenderness and political weight.
The videos in the installation were filmed by me in quiet moments of nostalgia in exile, intimate fragments of longing and remembrance, stitched into the fabric of the work.
The Thread Between Us is a site of memory across time, land, and rupture. Even displaced and exiled, even in silence, we are still there, thread by thread, and voice by voice. Copy Edited by Leena Aboutaleb
