Between Us, a Thread
Between us, there is a thread — thin as breath, trembling between inboxes and time zones.
It crosses fire and checkpoints, cables and silence. It does not ask for permission to arrive.
This project began as an email. A quiet gesture between photographers, image-makers, and those who hold memory like a fragile light. Palestinian, Arab, scattered — yet orbiting the same wound. In times when the land burns and language breaks, the thread insists on another form of communication: tender, slow, and unmonetized.
These letters are not applications, not calls for participation. They are survivals.
They are small rebellions against erasure and a refusal to let connection die under the weight of borders and noise.
Each message is an act of care. One person writes to another — not to exhibit, but to reach. They respond if they can, or simply let it rest in their inbox like a seed. Then they forward it onward, to another life that once crossed theirs, or one they have only dreamt of. The thread continues: from Gaza to Amman, from Ramallah to Beirut, from Cairo to the diaspora’s scattered night.
Sometimes the messages carry images; sometimes they carry silence. Sometimes they are love letters to those who are gone or to those still shaping the world through fragments. Each one carries the pulse of a shared geography, stitched together not by maps but by memory.
This correspondence is not about producing. It is about staying alive together.
It is about saying: I see you, I think of you, I dream of you and I fight by you.
It is about reclaiming the slow language of care in a time of crisis, about building a constellation of attention that capitalism, colonialism, and war cannot flatten.
What emerges is not an archive, but a breathing organism: a collective lung of images, words, and silences. A geography of resistance made of letters that travel instead of bodies that cannot.
Each email becomes a thread, and all threads together form a fabric. A network of tenderness stretched across catastrophe.
Between Us, a Thread is a map of attention, a constellation of entanglement, a quiet rebellion against disappearance.
Note: the project is unfinished, it is still evolving and more emails are being exchanged.
Participating artists: Amera Elnaal, Hashim Nasr, Lina Khalid, Maen Hammad, Moayed Abu Ammouna, Mohammad Alfaraj, Mosab Abushama, Omar Malas, Rabab Chamseddine, Reem Ali, Rotana Shaker, Ruba Alfaraouna, Tamara Kalo, Yaqeen Yamani, Yasmin Huleileh, Yazan Khalili, and Zara Naber.