Before Freedom Pt. 2

'Before Freedom Pt. 2' will feature new work made in 2024, drawing inspiration from the fertility of the land and the verdancy of spring in Palestine. Questioning history, memory, space, politics and reality itself, Adam Rouhana leverages photography to challenge the temporalities of a supremacist regime of visuality. Assembling geopolitical, socio-cultural and historical awareness into aesthetic formations, this exhibition argues for expanding notions of subjectivity - self-consciously scrutinizing dominant transhistorical representations and presenting an alternative. Whether you are seeing children playing football, friends and family swimming together, streetlife or images of natural life, this work is a description of the...

Adam Rouhana (b. 1991, Boston, MA) is a Palestinian- American artist and photographer based between Jerusalem and London. Rouhana’s photography works to deconstruct Orientalism through his subjective lens within the broader context of Palestine. Through his investigations, he questions his positionality as a Palestinian behind the camera, both as Westerner, having grown up in America, and...

Adam Rouhana (b. 1991, Boston, MA) is a Palestinian- American artist and photographer based between Jerusalem and London. Rouhana’s photography works to deconstruct Orientalism through his subjective lens within the broader context of Palestine. Through his investigations, he questions his positionality as a Palestinian behind the camera, both as Westerner, having grown up in America, and as Arab. Rouhana received his master’s from the University of Oxford.

Through the introduction of new narratives, Rouhana’s work embraces themes of the past to create a contemporary Palestinian visuality characterised by visual representations of Palestinian lives that embody an active ethic of self- determination. He is often inspired by scenes of his grandmother’s fruit orchard and domestic life from his early memories in Palestine.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, Aperture, and Dazed Magazine, among other publications.