My People Will Return: In Air, In Water, In Light
Tick Tack•Nov 14, 2025 — Dec 31, 2025
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TICK TACK is proud to announce My People Will Return: In Air, In Water, In Light, a major group exhibition curated by Zayna Al-Saleh, in which the land and body bears witness to ethnic cleansing and genocide – physically and metaphysically – while delicately balancing the dichotomy of what remains and the promise of return. Art in this context becomes a force for resurrection.
The works on view respond to the final verse of the poem The “Red Indian’s” Penultimate Speech to the White Man by the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish. Here, his words are intended to be read like prophecy and are intersectional to both legacies of erasure. However brazen and violent the attempt of these erasures, traces continue to infinitely exist in our knowledge of the land and its knowledge of us. The terrestrial and other elements are forces beyond the control of…
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My People Will Return: In Air, In Water, In Light
Tick Tack•Nov 14, 2025 — Dec 31, 2025
Press Release
TICK TACK is proud to announce My People Will Return: In Air, In Water, In Light, a major group exhibition curated by Zayna Al-Saleh, in which the land and body bears witness to ethnic cleansing and genocide – physically and metaphysically – while delicately balancing the dichotomy of what remains and the promise of return. Art in this context becomes a force for resurrection.
The works on view respond to the final verse of the poem The “Red Indian’s” Penultimate Speech to the White Man by the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish. Here, his words are intended to be read like prophecy and are intersectional to both legacies of erasure. However brazen and violent the attempt of these erasures, traces continue to infinitely exist in our knowledge of the land and its knowledge of us. The terrestrial and other elements are forces beyond the control of…
