DUBLIN.- The Palestinian Ambassador, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, visited the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) today (Thursday 22 October 2026) for a preview of Eltiqa: How to Work Together? an exhibition of artists from Eltiqa, an artist collective from Gaza City curated by The Question of Funding, opening tomorrow (Friday 23 October 2026). The exhibition is a collaboration with Art Jameel and tours to IMMA from Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Featuring more than 60 artworks by Mohamed Abusal, Abdel Raouf Al-Ajouri, Mohammed Al-Hawajri, Raed Issa, Dina Matar and Sohail Salem, the exhibition tells the story of a community that continues to overcome years of oppression. For over 20 years, Eltiqa (Arabic for “encounter”) have developed artistic practices together while supporting younger generations of artists in Gaza. The agile, creative and community-oriented nature of their artistic practice and economic model has helped the group sustain itself through years of political, economic and cultural struggles.

The Palestinian Ambassador, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, said: “I am grateful to IMMA for hosting and facilitating the Eltiqa Collective’s presentation of Palestinian artists from Gaza and their artistic practices at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. It is wonderful to see 60 works by six Palestinian artists who have managed to sustain this collective despite extraordinary and unimaginable circumstances in Gaza. I hope this exhibition will amplify their voices and convey a powerful message of resilience and hope.”

This exhibition Eltiqa: How to Work Together? consists of a selection of artworks produced by Eltiqa members from 2002 to 2025. The artworks are two-dimensional works that range in media from small sketches on notebooks, to drawings created from found materials to large scale paintings, and photographs. While some artists, such as Dina Matar, portray colourful depictions and motifs celebrating Palestinian life and resistance, other artists such as Raed Issa, depict more sombre aspects of the reality in Gaza.

The exhibition includes an extensive timeline from 1948 to 2026, covering major events in Palestine in addition to key moments in the lives and careers of Eltiqa members and the Eltiqa Gallery in Gaza. This timeline is illustrated using archival images from the artists, together with a series of anecdotes showcasing oral histories.

The artworks arrived at this exhibition from different places and times. Some were produced and exhibited years ago, remaining in the trust of institutions and individuals due to the difficulty of their returning to Gaza, some works were carried out of Gaza with members of the collective who were able to leave in the early days of the genocide, while other works were recently produced and smuggled out of Gaza in various ways as an act of preservation. This gathering of works points to a network of solidarity, and is an act of anti-dispersal and reunion, during this time of forced dispersal. Some members of the collective remain in Gaza in constant forced displacement, while others are newly exiled abroad.

The Question of Funding said: “As the genocide unfolds before our eyes, and Gaza and its people are being systematically destroyed, this exhibition tells the story of a community that has managed to overcome years of oppression. The artworks on view arrived at this exhibition from different places and times. Some works were hand-carried out of Gaza with members of the collective who were able to leave during different phases of the genocide, some in late 2023, and others in late 2025. Other artworks were smuggled out of Gaza in various ways as an act of preservation. This gathering of works points to a network of solidarity against dispersal and erasure”.

From 29 October an outdoor screening programme of film works, titled Is Everything and Everyone all the Time, curated by The Question of Funding will be screened on Living Canvas at IMMA in parallel with the exhibition. The programme brings together three films Basma Alsharif’s We Began By Measuring Distance (2009), Rosalind Nashashibi’s Electrical Gaza (2015), and Oraib Toukan’s When Things Occur (2016) which focus on the impossibility of representing Gaza. Each film confronts, in a different way, this crisis of representation; the impossibility of communicating an experience shaped by siege, death, destruction, and separation when the available images themselves risk producing further distance. The films search for forms of intimacy, mediation, and address that might resist the familiar visual languages through which Gaza has been made legible to the outside world.

This exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between The Question of Funding collective and Eltiqa. A previous iteration of the exhibition was conceived for documenta15 (2022), and an expanded display was shown in the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 5 February to 20 July 2025.