In Kasr Hdoud / Broken Barriers, Hannan Abu-Hussein brings together three decades of work exploring the forces that shape and constrain her experience as a woman, a Palestinian and an artist. Monumental installations transform materials drawn from domestic and cultural life—raw sheep’s wool, traditional blankets, concrete, olive oil and bodily, vein-like tubes—through repetitive acts of manual labour. Moving between softness and violence, intimacy and resistance, these works give physical form to the pressures of patriarchal tradition, political division and cultural belonging, while asserting the possibility of breaking through the boundaries they impose. Co-published with The Tel-Aviv Museum of Art.
