“In that same hour, neighborhoods are erased, entire families disappear, and fragments become records of what once held life. The archive fills with what should still be here and with what refuses to be forgotten.
In that same hour, a world declares itself without disguise. A world awakens, and a world falls silent. The future being written stands before us. That which follows is reckoned despite its shadow.”
– From the Exhibition Text
Over the past two years, the magnitude of loss has outpaced the language available to describe it. It is a force that has swept through lives, homes, archives, and entire cities, leaving us to ask not only how to reckon and register what has been taken, but how we continue to live amid ongoing erasure.
In That Same Hour brings together nineteen artists and collectives from Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, South Africa, Spain, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Algeria to reckon with these realities from across borders and positions. Taking its cue from the worldwide solidarity that has gathered around Gaza over the past two years, the exhibition invites 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.
Alongside the exhibition, a public program of talks, conversations, screenings, and workshops will unfold with participating artists and other interdisciplinary practitioners, extending and deepening the questions raised by the works.
The exhibition emerges from a two-year solidarity program at Darat al Funun that began in response to the genocide in Gaza and later extended to the 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 – The Khalid Shoman Foundation
Image: Hazem Harb. Peeling. 2025. Collage on canvas. Image courtesy of Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation
