Get Me A Stone features a series of paintings produced between 2021 and 2026 by Rosalind Nashashibi, as well as the film Occupation of The Inner Life (2026). These works reflect an emotional and political engagement with the current situation in the Gaza Strip.

Although it is evident in Nashashibi’s work that her two main media, film and painting, permeate each other, in the case of the aforementioned works there is something that painting can bring forth with particular force, counteracting the brutality of the images we have witnessed in the last two and a half years, without turning its back on the necessary acknowledgment of that violence. A space emerges in the pictorial act that goes beyond representation, where the symbolic appears as a way of transcending the illustrative, while also activating the affective as a means to situate oneself. For Nashashibi, the history of painting provides a constant reflection on composition in relation to the historical moments in which certain works emerge. But painting may also be a way of relating to what endures in the distance, a way of working on the distance imposed by exile.

The stones alluded to in the title are symbols of resistance. Various paintings depict hands holding stones as an initial gesture in response to subjugation. Stones, the mineral element, construct an architecture in which life unfolds, although they also provide a space to rebel against the oppression of occupation.

History and memory interweave certain materialities in Nashashibi’s work, the everyday that constructs ghostly moments in memory – whose memory – as in Palestine, c. 1950 and Steadfastness (both 2025), which reaffirm an idea of continuity, of a temporality that resists determinism, essential for affirming a future. The beds, the clothes, the acronym UNRWA constitute a distant and continuous landscape made of diffuse textures.

Get Me a Stone also presents the film Occupation of The Inner Life (2026) that links the actual labour of painting – the production process and on display – with family situations, indicating the affections that ultimately underlie artistic endeavours and political commitments.

On the occasion of teh opening, the museum's AMA Study Center has organized a seminar with the participation of Rosalind Nashashibi, Mahmoud Alshaer and Amador Fernández-Savater.

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