Who's in town?
Dima Srouji
The Subterranean Rise: Rememberment and the Psychospatial Liberation of Palestinian Land
Salt Beyoğlu
February 25, 2026 19.00
![Dima Srouji Dima Srouji, <i>Model of a Sacred Home</i> [Kutsal Bir Evin Maketi], 2025
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Dima Srouji, Model of a Sacred Home, 2025
Courtesy of Ab-Anbar Gallery
Courtesy of Ab-Anbar Gallery
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Drawing from architectural research, glassmaking, and speculative archaeology, artist Dima Srouji interrogates the violent fragmentation of Palestinian culture under settler-colonial erasure. Through projects such as Late Monuments, Maternal Labour, and The Red River, she explores how working intimately with land and artisans becomes an act of rememberment* in a moment of dismemberment.
In this Who’s in Town? talk, Srouji will trace lines of thought, processes, and methods that shape her practice, weaving personal reflections with broader spatial and historical questions. She will address how intergenerational memory is embedded in materiality, how displacement is mapped onto landscapes, and how psychospatial liberation—an undoing of imposed spatial and cognitive constraints—emerges through artistic practice. Moving between the subterranean and the surface, between fragments and reconstructions, the artist will discuss how her work reimagines resurrection and liberation, transforming a single grain of sand into a landscape of possibility.
The talk will be held in English and is open to everyone.
*The artist uses “rememberment” in reference to Jasbir Puar’s framework, reflecting how collective memory reassembles fragments to resist the multiscalar dismemberment of bodies and lands. This idea is further developed in Dima Srouji, “The Ghost of the Whole”, e-flux Architecture, December 2025.
Dima Srouji is an architect and visual artist exploring the ground as a deep space of rich cultural weight and a site for potential collective repair. She works with glass, text, archives, maps, plaster casts, and film, understanding each as an evocative object and emotional companion that helps her question what cultural heritage and public space mean in the context of Bilad al-Sham, especially in Palestine. She was the Jameel Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2022–2023 and is currently leading the MA City Design studio “Underground Palestine” at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Institut du monde arabe, Corning Museum of Glass, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Sharjah Art Foundation, and Barjeel Art Foundation, among others.
Drawing from architectural research, glassmaking, and speculative archaeology, artist Dima Srouji interrogates the violent fragmentation of Palestinian culture under settler-colonial erasure. Through projects such as Late Monuments, Maternal Labour, and The Red River, she explores how working intimately with land and artisans becomes an act of rememberment* in a moment of dismemberment.
In this Who’s in Town? talk, Srouji will trace lines of thought, processes, and methods that shape her practice, weaving personal reflections with broader spatial and historical questions. She will address how intergenerational memory is embedded in materiality, how displacement is mapped onto landscapes, and how psychospatial liberation—an undoing of imposed spatial and cognitive constraints—emerges through artistic practice. Moving between the subterranean and the surface, between fragments and reconstructions, the artist will discuss how her work reimagines resurrection and liberation, transforming a single grain of sand into a landscape of possibility.
The talk will be held in English and is open to everyone.
*The artist uses “rememberment” in reference to Jasbir Puar’s framework, reflecting how collective memory reassembles fragments to resist the multiscalar dismemberment of bodies and lands. This idea is further developed in Dima Srouji, “The Ghost of the Whole”, e-flux Architecture, December 2025.
Dima Srouji is an architect and visual artist exploring the ground as a deep space of rich cultural weight and a site for potential collective repair. She works with glass, text, archives, maps, plaster casts, and film, understanding each as an evocative object and emotional companion that helps her question what cultural heritage and public space mean in the context of Bilad al-Sham, especially in Palestine. She was the Jameel Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2022–2023 and is currently leading the MA City Design studio “Underground Palestine” at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Institut du monde arabe, Corning Museum of Glass, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Sharjah Art Foundation, and Barjeel Art Foundation, among others.
