Connecting people through art 

We are glad to invite you to the opening of Noor Abed's exhibition: Noor Abed: A Night We Held Between, at Museu Tàpies, on on Wednesday 9 April 2025, from 6 pm (Carrer Aragó, 255, Barcelona).

A Night We Held Between was produced as a result of Abed winning the Han Nefkens Foundation-Museu Tàpies Video Art Production Grant 2022, in collaboration with NTU CCA Singapore, WIELS Brussels, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) Manila, and Jameel Arts Centre Dubai.

At 6pm, on the occasion of the opening screening, Noor Abed and the project curators, LaOtra (María Amador and Patricia Sorroche), will discuss the artist's personal and creative universe on the basis of the book Stars at Midday, presented for the first time in Barcelona and which will be available in the Museu Tàpies bookshop. The conversation will be introduced by Imma Prieto, director of the Museu Tàpies, and Han Nefkens, founder of the Han Nefkens Foundation.

Stars at Midday –نجوم الضُهر is a personal diary where the artist sets down poetic and audiovisual notes on the production phase of the film A Night We Held Between, shot in Palestine in 2023 with her family and friends. The film centres on Song for the Fighters, found in the sound archive of the Popular Art Center Palestine. Through the layers of the song, in a maze of sounds and places, the film evokes history as a permanent present tense, a collective act of imagination.
Like the film, but more intimately and profoundly, the book weaves together narrative fragments, songs and daily observations to create a fusion of sequences of natural, prepared movements, of documentary and fictional elements.
Through a choreography of bodies, places, stories and time frames, Abed's work encourages thought about the forms of social action and resistance in everyday life.

A Night We Held Between takes as its starting point the song "Song for The Fighters", which was found in the sound archive of the Popular Art Center Palestine. As in a labyrinth of sounds and places, the film evokes history as a permanent present time, a collective and imaginative act.
The film was shot in natural settings in Palestine, such as caves, underground passages and wild valleys, turning the landscape into another protagonist. Through this environment, the film explores collective memory and discovers a world hidden beneath the surface of what we see. The images evoke what is lost or forgotten, while ancient rituals and gestures, inspired by ancient traditions, connect the past with the present. Thus, the work opens a space to reflect on the relationship between land, culture and shared history.
Throughout the film, scenes weave rituals and narratives of community and resistance into everyday representations of a part of social life in Palestine, emphasizing the role of collective rhythmic movement and the potential impact that shared feelings can evoke in the creation and maintenance of a community.
The work of Noor Abed (Jerusalem, 1988) is a deep artistic exploration of the intersections between movement, ideology and social constructions. His films serve as a critical inquiry into the mechanisms of power, memory and resistance, offering alternative narratives that challenge and enrich our understanding of the world we inhabit.


Noor Abed (1988, Palestine) is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. She works at the intersection of performance and film. Through a process of image making, her works create situations where social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. Abed attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in Νew York in 2015–16, and the Home Workspace Program (HWP) at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2016–17. She was a fellow at the Raw Material Company in Dakar in 2019, and in 2020, she co-founded, with Lara Khaldi, the School of Intrusions, an independent educational collective in Ramallah, Palestine. Abed was an assistant curator in documenta fifteen, Kassel 2021–22, and an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam 2022–24. She was awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation/Museu Tàpies Video Art Production Grant in 2022, and her film A Night We Held Between was selected as a first-prize winner of the e-flux Film Award 2024. Her book Stars at Midday was published in October 2024.