https://w139.nl/en/event/flour-water-soil

Areej Ashhab is an artist and researcher whose work addresses material heritage loss, more-than-human ecologies, and land politics. Areej’s practice spans material experimentation, writing, and film, and often unfolds collectively through walks, workshops, and shared meals. She is the co-founder of Al-Block, documenting lost narratives of the Palestinian landscape through collective walking, and Al-Wah’at, a translocal collective countering anthropocentric and colonial narratives around arid lands and futures.

During her residency at La Jetee, she developed her commissioned installation as part of the flour, water, soil exhibition at W139, opening April 2026. Her installation features a lime-plastered floor and video work that mediates between the ancient Neolithic burial rituals of Palestine and the contemporary erasures of settler-colonial salvage excavations. The work examines how the selection and destruction of archaeological layers serve to overwrite indigenous continuity and ancestral narratives.