Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation presents In That Same Hour, a major collective exhibition bringing together nineteen artists and collectives from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, South Africa, Spain, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Algeria. Taking its cue from the worldwide solidarity that has gathered around Gaza over the past two years, the exhibition reaches across borders and positions, inviting collective engagement with the central questions of this moment.
Extending across several of Darat al Funun’s buildings, the exhibition spans film, installation, painting, collage, photography, and research-based practices. The works chart a geography of reflection and resistance, moving between ground and sky, image and archive, grief and persistence. Together, they open multiple vantage points from which to consider how we witness, remember, and imagine – reckoning with disappearance and erasure, and contemplating what it means to continue building and imagining in the face of such forces.
Participating artists include Bady Dalloul, Elias Kurdy, Elo Vega & Rogelio López Cuenca, Hazem Harb, Jayce Salloum, Lobna Al Sane & Mais Fareed, Mahmoud Alhaj, Mahmoud Massad, Nadine Fattaleh, Nathalie Frankowski & Cruz Garcia / WAI Architecture Think Tank, Paloma Polo, Public Works Studio, Rachid Koraïchi, Raed Ibrahim, Salama Younes (Yura Collective), Wesam Al Asali (IWLab), Yara Sharif & Nasser Golzari (Architects for Gaza), and Zara Julius; alongside a work by the late Jordanian artist Adnan Yahya.
The exhibition’s public program will open with a guided tour led by Khaled Al-Bashir, Arts and Culture Director at Darat al Funun, on Thursday, 20 November 2025 at 6:30 PM in the Main Building. Conducted in Arabic, the tour will explore the works, their themes, and their wider contexts. Further conversations, screenings, and workshops will be announced soon, extending and deepening the exhibition’s concerns.
The exhibition emerges from a two-year solidarity program at Darat al Funun that began in response to the genocide in Gaza in 2023, and the later war in Lebanon. Over these two years, the program has unfolded through exhibitions, conversations, and public program events, among them Raeda Saadeh’s Dear Viewers, Joe Namy’s Until This Elegy Ends, the collection display In Solidarity with Palestine, Suha Shoman’s We Won’t Leave, Under Fire, and Resurgent Nahda, curated by Nadi Abusaada.
Press release from Darat al Funun
Image: Hazem Harb. Peeling. 2025. Collage on canvas. Image courtesy of Darat al Funun-The Khalid Shoman Foundation
