Beyond the Image: Palestine Benefit Exhibition Opening Reception
Opening Reception: Beyond the Image: A Benefit Exhibition for The Sameer Project
Join All Street Gallery and Shadowbanned Magazine for the opening reception of Beyond the Image: A Benefit Exhibition for The Sameer Project, an exhibition bringing together artists whose work examines how images of the Middle East and its diasporas are constructed, circulated, and contested. Through painting, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, digital media, artificial intelligence, photography, and installation, the exhibition explores the relationship between memory, archives, technology, colonialism, and representation while raising funds for The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid initiative supporting displaced families in Gaza.
The evening offers an opportunity to experience the exhibition, meet participating artists, and engage in conversations around art, memory, resistance, and collective liberation.
Following the reception, continue the celebration at the official After Party at Beverlys (297 Grand St 10002), beginning at 8:00 PM and running late. We will be selling t-shirts and Taim Olive Oil products available for sale to further fundraise for The Sameer Project.
Throughout the exhibition, participating artists and collaborators will present a series of public programs—including workshops, artist talks, and performances—that expand on the exhibition's themes while offering opportunities to engage more deeply with their practices. Proceeds from all public programming will benefit The Sameer Project.
Explore the full schedule of programs below.
https://luma.com/beyondpalestinebenefitexhibition
About the Artists
Ridikkuluz
Ridikkuluz is an Arab New Yorker working across painting, sculpture, performance, and writing to center family, chosen family, and intimate portrayals of Arab and queer life. Rooted in figurative practice, their work transforms personal memory into collective testimony. Their work has been exhibited internationally at the Institut du Monde Arabe, Hudson River Museum, Metropolitan Arts Centre, and Montréal arts interculturels. In 2026, they made their curatorial debut with [minna | ﻣﻧﺎ] at Participant Inc in collaboration with SALMA.
Nouf Aljowaysir
Nouf Aljowaysir is a Saudi artist based in NYC. Her practice emerges from the conditions of migration and moving between cultures. Working across photography and moving image, she weaves technological tools, archival materials, and personal memories to understand history and identity. She uses dialogue with machines as a method for examining how those exchanges reshape the performance of the self.
Nawal Maghathe
Nawal Maghathe is a Palestinian-American multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose practice spans performance, installation, and community engagement. Working with photographs printed on fabric and beeswax sculptures, Maghathe creates immersive installations that explore themes of healing, memory, and cultural identity.
Aya Krisht
Aya Krisht is a designer, printmaker, and researcher based in metro Detroit, with roots in the Galilee. Her practice is concerned with print praxis and anti-colonial cultural production, particularly in the face of imperial hegemonies and erasure, with a focus on printmaking, book arts, and Arabic letterpress and movable type. She is co-founder of Maamoul Press, an award-winning independent publishing project.
Layal Srouji
Layal Srouji's practice foregrounds relation, iteration, and tactile knowledge. Working with graphic design, paper, print, bookmaking, and found media, she is attentive to how heritage accumulates through materials and their social engagement. Her references often emerge from socially engaged collective research, collaboration, and workshops. Her body of work addresses the urgent need to nourish Palestine materially.
Iyad Abou Gaida
Iyad Abou Gaida is a Lebanese farmer, filmmaker, ecological designer, and researcher from Hasbaya, South Lebanon. Raised on his family's olive groves, cultivated for generations, his interdisciplinary practice emerges from a lifelong relationship with the land and investigates the intersections of ecology, colonialism, extractive capitalism, ecocide, and land stewardship through long-term, multi-modular artistic research projects spanning documentary film, drawing, mapping, installation, publishing, and collaborative field research.
Sabri Sundos
Sabri Sundos is a Palestinian American painter and textile artist. Rooted in his personal experience of being raised in the diaspora, Sundos explores themes of identity, labor, and time. Through the merging of traditional craft and cultural iconography, his work emphasizes the importance of agency and human touch, highlighting the inherent tactile nature of art-making as a means of reclaiming and preserving heritage. Sundos is also the founder of Unibrow Sun, an organization focused on uplifting narratives of solidarity through art and education.
Parham Ghalamdar
Parham Ghalamdar is a multidisciplinary artist whose work traces forgotten mythologies, buried philosophies, and visual ruins, reconfiguring them into speculative worlds where memory, fiction, and futurism collapse into one another. Drawing on cybernetic theory and manipulated generative imagery, he explores how systems of feedback, simulation, and machine vision mediate our understanding of history and possibility. Through painting, film, and writing, he builds narratives that feel both ancient and yet-to-come.
Umber Majeed
Umber Majeed, a New York native, is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016 and graduated from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan in 2013. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. She lives and works in New York, USA and Lahore, Pakistan.
Ali Van Godil
Ali Van Godil is a New York and Oregon based designer, artist, creative director, and filmmaker who believes in the power of beauty to create universally harmonious art, designs, and productions. His practice explores the emotional and spiritual architecture of belonging — how memory, migration, landscape, and sacred tradition shape identity and inner life. Rooted in a Pakistani upbringing, informed by Islamic and Indian spiritual philosophy, and deeply influenced by the natural world of Oregon, his work centers on translation: translating inner states into form, ancestral memory into contemporary language, and spiritual longing into visual presence.
Mona Saeed Kamal
Mona Saeed Kamal is a multidisciplinary installation artist whose work explores narratives of migration, journeys, and identity. Through examinations of religion, ethnicity, conflict, and borders, she creates stories that confront both her own lived experiences and the lives of people across the many cultures and places to which she is connected. Born in Algeria, raised in Canada, and currently based in New York, Kamal's work draws from these intersecting histories to examine the complexities of belonging, displacement, and cultural inheritance.