Noor Abed
A Night We Held Between
The film A Night We Held Between by Noor Abed centres around “Song for The Fighters,” which was found at the sonic archive of the Popular Art Centre Palestine. Through the layers of the song, in a labyrinth of sounds and sites, the film conjures history as a permanent present tense, a collective and imaginative act.
A talk with the artist is planned on Thursday 10.10.2024 at 19:00.
WIELS Auditorium
During the opening hours (11:00-18:00), starts every half hour
Free access
In Arabic with English subtitles
30' min, 16mm film digital transfer, sound
Courtesy of the artist
The film was shot in ancient sites in Palestine—caves, carved holes, underground passages, and wild valleys—the land becomes our main character. It traverses beyond the first layer of visibility to reveal a vast, hidden world similar to the one we know. Throughout the film, scenes intertwine rituals and narratives of community and resistance into everyday representations of social life in Palestine, thus emphasizing the role of collective rhythmic movement and the potential impact that shared feelings can evoke in creating and sustaining a community.
A Night We Held Between is produced with the support of the Han Nefkens Foundation—Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2022. Noor Abed is the recipient of the Han Nefkens Foundation—Fundació Antoni Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2022, which awards artists under the age of 50 living in West or Central Asia, supporting the production and exhibition of a new moving image work. The work is selected and exhibited in collaboration with Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) in Manila; NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and WIELS, Brussels.
Noor Abed (b. 1988, PS) works at the intersection of performance and film. Abed attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in Νew York in 2015-16, and the Home Workspace Program (HWP) at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2016-17. Abed’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Gabes Cinema Fen Film Festival, Tunisia; Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Lagos Biennale; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; and the Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, among others. In 2020, together with Lara Khaldi she co-founded the School of Intrusions, an independent educational collective in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed was an assistant curator for documenta 15, Kassel 2021-22, and an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2022-24.
