Artist · Scholar · Cultural Worker

Dena Al-Adeeb دينا الأديب

Thinking about the geographies of war

Selected work ↓ Bio

Now showing على حافة البحر At the Edge of the Sea

Selected Work

Sunlight crossing the patinated copper tiles of a vast roof — from An Archive of Future Memories

01 — Art

An Archive of Future Memories

2021 – ongoing

A glowing red suspended form fills a domed performance space, with the audience seated below — Crossings / عبور

02 — Art

Crossings عبور

2019 – ongoing

A lone robed figure stands in a vast field of snow, dwarfed by white emptiness — Baghdadi Mem/Wars, Absence/Presence

03 — Art

Baghdadi Mem/Wars

2010

A long communal table of diasporic Iraqis sharing a meal in a darkened room — The Taste of Displacement

04 — Art

The Taste of Displacement

2014

A pale, ghostly figure stands in the doorway of a ruined structure deep in bare winter woods — Disturbance

05 — Art

Disturbance

2013

An elaborate devotional installation glowing with green, gold, and red light, built by community members for Ashura — Sacred Spaces

06 — Art

Sacred Spaces

2006

“Apocalypses are not in the future. Apocalypses are happening now.”

CAPAS, Heidelberg University — interview

Currently

2026

In Search of Remnant Images

The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit

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May 2025

Lecture-performance — An Archive of Future Memories: Letters to My Daughter

NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

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May 2025

Screening — على حافة البحر / At the Edge of the Sea

MIT List Visual Arts Center

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