Land, Nourishment, and the Politics of Care

In a landscape where access to land, food, and heritage is constantly threatened, how do people sustain themselves—physically, culturally, and spiritually?

This chapter of the exhibition gathers works that examine the politics of cultivation, nourishment as resistance, and the act of preserving memory through soil, seeds, food, and storytelling. Through farming, fermentation, sound, and material archives, these works insist that care, creativity, and sustenance are radical acts in the face of erasure.

Here cultivation is understood in its broadest sense: not just the tending of crops, but the cultivation of memory, community, and resistance itself. The artists engage with food, soil, and land as sites of both vulnerability and defiance, where seeds are planted as acts of future-making.

Whether through the restoration of olive trees, the archiving of recipes, the fermentation of wine, or the sonic mapping of place, these works highlight how Palestinian cultural practices persist despite ongoing displacement. They remind us that to cultivate is to resist, to nourish is to remember, and to gather is to survive.