Images: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Still from ???????????????????????????????????? ???????? ????????????????: ???????????????????? ???????????? ???????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????? (2025) (courtesy of the artists)
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom at Kunstinstituut Melly is now open as part of their Spring 2026 program.
Working across moving image, sound, and text, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme trace the poetics and politics of anti-colonial resistance in Palestine. Developed through an ongoing process of study with former prisoners, poets, and revolutionary thinkers, Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom unfolds across generations, approaching resistance and something learned, carried, and continually reimagined. Through layered image and sound, the artists construct “new scripts,” where writing, storytelling, and song become life-affirming acts–sustaining the possibility of resistance even within conditions of confinement.
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom is co-commissioned by Kunstinstituut Melly in collaboration with The Bell / Brown Arts Institute, Brown University; MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; and Nottingham Contemporary.
Working across moving image, sound, and text, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme trace the poetics and politics of anti-colonial resistance in Palestine. Developed through an ongoing process of study with former prisoners, poets, and revolutionary thinkers, Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom unfolds across generations, approaching resistance and something learned, carried, and continually reimagined. Through layered image and sound, the artists construct “new scripts,” where writing, storytelling, and song become life-affirming acts–sustaining the possibility of resistance even within conditions of confinement.
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom is co-commissioned by Kunstinstituut Melly in collaboration with The Bell / Brown Arts Institute, Brown University; MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; and Nottingham Contemporary.
April 21, 2026