Ab-Anbar is pleased to present A Cosmogram of Holy Views, the first ever solo exhibition in London by Dima Srouji. The exhibition confronts the profound dissonance between the sacred architecture and geography of Christianity and the ongoing erasure of Palestinian life under settler colonial violence. Palestine, often referred to as “The Holy Land” is simultaneously revered in abstraction and obliterated in practice. Churches, relics, and imagined landscapes are venerated, while the living communities and architectures that hold them are systematically displaced and destroyed.
The exhibition unfolds as a triptych across three spaces: the body, the spirit, and the land. Each installation reclaims fragments of Palestinian presence—material, architectural, and emotional—through acts of reconstruction, ritual, and refusal.
Together, these works form a cosmogram: a re-presentation of the Holy Land and a reorientation of the cultural cosmology of the collective. It is not a map of heaven, but a ground of memory—where the sacred is not abstracted from land, body, and history, but embedded within them. The cosmogram resists the severance between the spiritual and the political, offering instead a vision of continuity, rootedness, and return.
Dima Srouji (b. 1990, Palestine) is an architect, artist, educator, and researcher interested in layers
of the ground. She is the founder of the glass sculptures project Hollow Forms. Srouji was the
2022-2023 Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her work is part of the permanent
collections at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Victoria & Albert Museum, Institut du Monde
Arabe, Corning Museum of Glass, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Art Jameel, and the
Sharjah Art Foundation.
Srouji is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and currently leads the MA City Design
studio Underground Palestine at the Royal College of Art, London.
She has exhibited her work at the Venice Biennale, Sharjah Art Biennial; the Diriyah Biennial, Jeddah; the Sharjah Architecture Triennial; Corning Museum of Glass; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the London Design Festival; The Palestinian Museum; and others.