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Areej Ashhab is an artist, researcher and architect whose practice attends to land, material knowledge and collective learning in contexts shaped by colonial violence and structural fragmentation. The presentation Notes on a Returning Landscape showcases several bodies of work by Ashhab and her collaborators from Al-Block Collective – a group dedicated to counter-mapping the Palestinian landscape through collective walks – and Al-Wah’at Collective – a collective committed to growing communal practices in ecologies typically regarded as hostile.
The presentation traces the evolution of Ashhab’s practice, examining the impact that walking has had on her work. Inspired by the book Palestinian Walks by Palestinian lawyer and activist Raja Shehadeh, which documents decades of walking through the vanishing landscape of the West Bank, she contemplates how this landscape returns again and again through material and elemental cycles.