Admission to the exhibition is free during regular gallery opening hours. The opening reception and programmed events require tickets booked through P21 Gallery.
Co-curated by Rasha Eleyan and Zayna Al-Saleh
For the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2026, The Palestine Collective is organising a two-day exhibition on cultural belonging, in collaboration with the P21 Gallery.
Homeland Lost is an exhibition of an historic series of Palestinian photographs by award-winning documentary photographer Alan Gignoux. Homeland Lost juxtaposes portraits of Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948 and their descendants, shown alongside images of their former homes and villages inside Israel. Taken between 2004 and 2005, Homeland Lost is a poignant and sobering reminder of the human toll of an ongoing conflict which has displaced an estimated 8 million Palestinians and their descendants since 1948.
The opening reception for Revolution Is Female, a solo exhibition by Palestinian artist Rasha Eleyan. The exhibition explores the vital role of the revolutionary Palestinian woman through pop-inflected, photorealist paintings that bring together beauty, symbolism, domesticity, and female defiance. The reception will introduce the exhibition to invited guests, press, artists, collectors, and supporters, offering an opportunity to view the work, meet the artist and co-curators, and engage with the themes of visibility, agency, resistance, and celebration.
For the London Festival of Architecture 2026, the Palestine Collective seeks to inaugurate its exhibition with a speaking event and panel discussion on the evening of June 26, 2026. Titled ‘Belonging through Practice’, this programme seeks to foreground architectural and artistic practices that engage with questions of Arab diaspora, displacement, and the reconstruction of identity across geographies.
In addition to the London Festival of Architecture 2026 lecture series, participants will also be invited to join hands-on session in Arabic calligraphy. By bridging scholarship, craft, and performance, our event programme establishes inclusive spaces for learning, dialogue, and collective cultural expression.
In addition to the London Festival of Architecture 2026 lecture series, participants will also be invited to join hands-on session in traditional Palestinian tatreez embroidery. By bridging scholarship, craft, and performance, our event programme establishes inclusive spaces for learning, dialogue, and collective cultural expression.
The opening night at the beginning of the exhibition "Homeland Lost". Photographer Alan Gignoux and Curator Jenny Christensson will each make a short opening speech. We would include refreshments.
SPEAKERS:
Alan Gignoux, Photographer, Founder of Gignouxphotos
Jenny Christensson, Curator, Independent
A solo performance of the play by Khawla Ibraheem in cooperation with Schauspielhaus Wien, co-produced by BOW Production.
The starting point is the military practice known as “roof knocking”—a warning strike that gives civilians only a few minutes to leave their homes. From this reality, the piece develops an intimate portrait of daily life under constant threat.
‘A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees, they are the ribs of childhood.’
Lament for a lost land, Journal of an Ordinary Grief. Mahmoud Darwish
What makes a homeland and what does it mean to leave and lose it?
