Tomorrow, again, Mona Benyamin (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Triangle-Astérides, Jaou Tunis 2026)

Curator and translator Line Ajan observes time, language, and humour as an aesthetic, political, and coping strategy in Palestinian collective experiences, reviewing the traumas of the Nakba and Israeli settler colonialism throughout Mona Benyamin’s artistic practice, and video, Tomorrow, again (2023).

Mona Benyamin: Like Clockwork is at Triangle-Astérides at La Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille until 27 September 2026. The exhibition is part of the Mediterranean Season 2026 (Saison Méditerranée 2026), which continues across France until 31 October 2026.

Dress Rehearsal (2026) iterates at Jaou Tunis 2026, presented with the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (BIM), from 23 October 2026.

Listen out for more from Marseille, with author, filmmaker, and jewellery-maker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, coming soon.

For more from Haifa, listen to journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Ahmad Al-Bazz, capturing the depopulation and destruction of Palestinian villages and towns, and the continuation of colonial histories into the present, through their photography book, The Erasure of Palestine (2026): pod.link/1533637675/episode/NDlkZjI5MDctNmYyYi00NTgyLWIwY2EtYjU4YTkwNGQ2YWIy

For more about studio photography in Palestine through the Ottoman Empire and British Mandate, hear curator Rachel Dedman’s EMPIRE LINES episode about an UNRWA Dress from Ramallah, Palestine (1930s)⁠: pod.link/1533637675/episode/92c34d07be80fe43a8e328705a7d80cb

And read into the exhibition, Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and the Whitworth in Manchester, in gowithYamo: gowithyamo.com/blog/textiles-in-cambridge-palestinian-embroidery-at-kettles-yard

Read about the Art Encounters Biennial 2025 in Timișoara, in Art Monthly: instagram.com/p/DFdBW0eoE55

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The Jewelers of the Ummah, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (2024, 2026) (EMPIRE LINES x Shed Publishing, House of European History)

In this special episode, author, filmmaker, and jewellery-maker Ariella Aïsha Azoulay details shared, intertwined histories of Jewish and Muslim life in Algeria and North Africa, and how they have bee...

24 Sep 39min

Electricity, Asad Raza (2026) (EMPIRE LINES x E-WERK Luckenwalde)

Contemporary artist Asad Raza performs within the industrial infrastructures and ecologies of East Germany, conducting the development of electricity from Ancient Greece through the German Democratic ...

12 Sep 18min

Pasqyra e Lëndës (Sommarium), Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj (2025-Now) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Summit Photo 2026)

In this special episode, contemporary artist Erdiola Kanda Mustafaj joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss memory, displacement and the politics of image-making in Albania and the Western Balkans, throug...

27 Aug 40min

ZED LOVE, Libita Sibungu (2026) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange)

In this special episode, contemporary artist Libita Sibungu joins EMPIRE LINES live, to explore the layers, energies, and geologies that connect people to place, and African diasporic, mixed and multi...

30 Jul 58min

A Cutting: Songs of the Water, Kaajal Modi (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall, If Trees Could Talk 2026)

Find out more about Kaajal Modi’s collaborative work with audio, oral storytelling, and cultural preservation, through ⁠⁠Arts of Noticing⁠⁠, an independent symposium in Leeds, as part of If Trees Coul...

16 Jul 3min

The Deployment of Art, Clare Carolin (2026) (EMPIRE LINES Live at King’s College London)

In this special episode, author and contemporary art historian Clare Carolin joins EMPIRE LINES live, to discuss the British government’s deployment of art as an instrument of war in the North of Irel...

2 Jul 52min

Elevation (Chiltan), Suleman Aqeel Khilji (2025-2026) (EMPIRE LINES x White Cube Paris)

Contemporary artist Suleman Aqeel Khilji recollects the landscapes of Balochistan, a mountainous region spanning present-stay Pakistan and Iran, and the influence of Urdu language and literatures on h...

18 Jun 16min