“By situating this installation at the waterfront of Punamu’kwati’jk/Dartmouth, near Alderney Landing and Halifax Harbour, the themes of Regarding Land are extended to a local setting where land and water meet.”

Exhibition: “Hide Your Water from the Sun: location scouting, ‘Ein al-‘Aouja, the Jordan Valley, Palestine. Photo by Issa Freij, 2017” billboard installation by Jumana Emil Abboud, Nocturne in partnership with Dalhousie Art Gallery, October 18 – November 18, 2025.

Keywords: curatorial practice, exhibition, video, film, moving image, lens-based, media, photography, art, contemporary, representation, belonging, identity, memory, history, narrative, stories, songs, folktales, land, terrains, territories, landscapes, ancestral homelands, water, springs, wells,  river, sea, ocean, geography, topography, ecology, environment, displacement, dispossession, colonization, settler-colonialism, Jordan Valley, West Bank, Palestine, Southwest Asia (”Middle East”), Arab, world, region, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Image: James MacLean and Nocturne Halifax