Jameel Arts Centre presents How to Work Together?, an exhibition by Eltiqa, a Palestinian artist group that has played a crucial role in shaping the independent art scene in Palestine. On view until 20 July 2025, the exhibition is curated by The Question of Funding, a collective of artists and cultural practitioners from Palestine and the wider region.
Spanning more than 20 years of practice, How to Work Together? offers an intimate look into Eltiqa’s commitment to collaboration, resilience, and creative solidarity. Through multimedia installations, videos, archival materials, and process-based projects, the showcase explores the aesthetics and politics of working collectively as a form of care, endurance, and resistance.
The exhibition spotlights both the individual and collective practices of Eltiqa’s members, engaging themes of memory, place, fragmentation, and belonging. It also foregrounds the emotional and material realities of sustaining artistic work amid conditions of precarity and restricted mobility. In doing so, How to Work Together? poses questions about the meaning of artistic kinship, mutual support, and shared imagination in fractured times.
About Eltiqa
Formed in Gaza in 2002, the Eltiqa Group for Contemporary Art, or simply Eltiqa (Arabic for “the meeting” or “encounter”), emerged out of a need for solidarity, shared resources, and an accessible platform among contemporary artists navigating the political and material constraints of life.
Eltiqa’s core members, such as Mohamed Abusal, Abdel Raouf Al-Ajouri, Mohammed Al-Hawajri, Raed Issa, Dina Matar, and Sohail Salem, have developed individual practices while preserving a collective ethos grounded in experimentation, mutual care, and social engagement. For over a decade, the group ran the Eltiqa Art Gallery in Gaza City, one of the few independent spaces for contemporary art in the area until it was forced to close due to ongoing instability.
Eltiqa’s work resists dominant narratives of place and artistic identity. Instead, it offers a model of shared authorship and interdependence shaped by adversity. As the group states, they aim to face life’s harsh conditions using “the simplest language”, seeking, above all, “to colour life for the others.”
To get more information about How to Work Together?, please go to the official web page of the exhibition.
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