What the Olive Branch has Seen
Opening: 27 March 18:00-23:00
Exhibition: 28 March – 26 April 2026
Filonos 86 – Piraeus
Films by: Noor Abed, Andrés García Vidal, Lamia Joreige, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Regina de Miguel, Basma al Sharif, Huda Takriti, Rosa Tharrats & Gabriel Ventura, Rahme Veziroglu
Originally commissioned by Artviewer for SCREEN 2024
Curated by Àngels Miralda
At the end of March we opened the first part of a series of exhibitions at opbo studio in collaboration with Daily Lazy. I am proud to be the first curator of this series of events and look forward to following the ones that will be presented in the future by my much admired colleagues. This has been an opportunity to think about resourcefulness and the great amount of incredible events that can be produced through comraderie and dedication alone. Thank you to my colleagues at Daily Lazy who embody the “do it together” ethos that has held us together since the beginning of our collaboration and to Alex Tiliopoulous from opbo studio for the dedication to making space for contemporary art in times of contraction.
In 2024, I began working with this set of films as part of a commission for Artviewer’s SCREEN programme. Over the course of twelve months I dedicated myself to writing a descriptive or accompanying text to each of the twelve artworks we presented. This rhythm was intense because writing a good text about a work of art is never easy, but it somehow helped to be focused on the subject of Palestine, resistance, and solidarity in those months marked by the brutality of witnessing genocide across the Mediterranean. I wanted to dedicate it to the sea that connects our cultures because its waters are a cursed enchantment, a beauty that hides destruction beneath its waves, a colonised and segmented water that we cannot help but love despite its fathomless cruelty. The Mediterranean is in the midst of the unfurling of history. The fight against the colonialism of this territory is being written fresh each day in terrifying ways.
In its first iteration, on Artviewer, each film was presented individually online for one month. In 2025, it was presented as a two-day event at Framer Framed in Amsterdam. Finally, in Piraeus it was possible to create a film installation where multiple films were played at once. It was this overwhelming sense of time, screens, images, and sounds that achieved the closest rendition to reality. Over the span of the two years that I have been working with these films new ideas and interconnections have formed between them and it has been a pleasure to form new ideas around them and witness how they remained relevant and urgent in times whose increasing velocity brings us to an inevitable political precipice.
Thank you Tula, Irini, Alex, and all of the artists involved for your generosity and solidarity.
Àngels Miralda
Images of the installation set-up:
