Don’t Forget How to Fly | Talk by Rana Anani

Airports represent the current moment as interstitial spaces for transition; places of temporality where passengers remain passive, merely waiting for the future to arrive. In these anonymous zones solitude and individuality emerge as opposed to communality.
Join us on Wednesday, 26 February as writer and curator Rana Anani explores the liminal time of uncertainty through the lens of Palestinian visual art, while reflecting on milestones from her journey working closely with artists and cultural institutions in Palestine in recent years. Anani will discuss works by several artists such as Hani Zurob, Yazan Khalili, Tayseer Batniji, Emily Jacir, Mona Hatoum, Khalil Rabah and more.
Time: 7PM - 8.30PM
Date: Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Venue: Common Room, Alserkal Arts Foundation.
This session is the first of our Spring 2025 Residency public programmes - keep an eye out for updates and read more about our residents here.
Rana Anani is a Palestinian curator and writer specializing in visual arts. Her research interests include Palestinian art history, the intersection of visual art with loss, erasure, and archives, as well as the role of art as a tool of solidarity. Anani is currently a fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and a board member at the Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah. She is the editor of Emergence to Light, the memoir of artist Nabil Anani and Darb Al Ghoul, the memoir of artist Sliman Mansour.
Image: Yazan Khalili, This Sea Is Mine, 2015

Host or Publisher Alserkal Arts Foundation