Noor Abed’s work is evidence of a profound relationship between the body and memory. In her work, dance and song are not just forms of expression, but staged devices for the transmission of collective histories. The intersection between reality and magic in her cinematographic approach allows her works to create atmospheres charged with symbolism, in which time seems to unfold in the inf inite regeneration of myths.

In the film our songs were ready for all wars to come (2021), the artist composed an affirmation of life and a reinvention of traditions, creating a soundscape and a choreographic design closely linked to the Palestinian sociopolitical context. Opting for an analog film format, Abed inaugurates images based on the documentary, but with a specific temporality in which the magical and the imagined traverse the ancestral gestures performed, as well as the relationships between the individuals who dance and sing and who, in many ways, translate the incorporated ideologies into their daily bodies.

This research into gestures returns in a night we held between (2024), the second film presented. In this sonic dive, the chant is a lament, a question, and a prayer to get away from the war. From the caves from where the sounds are captured, the images are immersed alongside the photographic archives and the gestural repetition of the dance, further emphasized around the fire and the women. This sound investigation becomes even more central in the performance Nothing Will Remain Other Than the Thorn Lodged in the Throat of This World (2025), with Haig Aivazian, which is also present at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo.

The use of sound recordings taken from the location where the artist films reinforces a sensory dimension of memory and collective experience. By situating the narratives in the centuries-old caves, entrances, and holes that are also her native landscape, Abed stages the transformations of rituals, reinventing forms of resistance, in which the permanence of bodies in the territory becomes the point of convergence of struggle and survival.