Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzalez. Courtesy of the MACK and the artist.
Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez discuss their latest book, Anchor in the Landscape (MACK, 2024), with activist Issa Ambro, architect and artist Dima Srouji, artist David Birkin and Eyal Weizman, Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Over the past eighteen months, photographers Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez have been photographing olive trees in the Occupied Territories of Palestine, many of which are thousands of years old. This book brings together their studied, absorbing portraits of these trees, which act as fixed points in a historic and transforming landscape that is constantly disputed, altered, and increasingly destroyed.
ABOUT ADAM BROOMBERG
Adam Broomberg is an artist, activist and educator. He currently lives and works in Berlin. His activist work currently includes having founded Artists + Allies x Hebron (AHH), an NGO which he co-directs alongside the celebrated Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro. His work is currently being exhibited as part of the Venice Biennale. For two decades, he was one half of the critically acclaimed artist duo Broomberg & Chanarin. Together they had numerous solo exhibitions, including The Centre Georges Pompidou (2018) and the Hasselblad Center (2017), among others. His work is held in major public and private collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, Baltimore Museum of Art, Centres Pompidou, Cleveland Museum of Art, MoMA, Stedelijk Museum, Tate, Yale University Art Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum.
ABOUT RAFAEL GONZALEZ
Rafael Gonzalez (b. 1997, Saint-Cloud, France) is a lens-based artist living and working between Berlin and New York. He received a BA from the SRH Berlin School of Design and Communication in 2019, a BS from the University of London and LSE in 2021, and completed the one-year programme at ICP in New York in 2024. Previously he has worked for André Viking in 2021 and Adam Broomberg between 2022 and 2023 and is a founding Board Member of Artists + Allies x Hebron since 2023.
ABOUT EYAL WEIZMAN
Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures and founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2010 he founded the research agency Forensic Architecture and directs it ever since. In 2007 he set up, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine. This work is documented in the book Architecture after Revolution (Sternberg, 2014). In 2013 he designed a permanent folly in Gwangju, South Korea which was documented in the book The Roundabout Revolution (Sternberg, 2015). Weizman is on the editorial board of Third Text, Humanity, Cabinet and Political Concepts and is on the board of directors of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and on the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
ABOUT DAVID BIRKIN
David Birkin is an artist, writer, and Senior Lecturer in Photography at London College of Communication, UAL, where he co-founded VISIBLE JUSTICE, a transdisciplinary research hub for photographers, filmmakers, artists, activists, journalists, and human rights lawyers working at the intersection of visual culture and social justice. Birkin holds a BA from Oxford University, an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art (University College London), and was a fellow of the Art & Law Program in New York and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He is currently completing a PhD on histories of imperial aerial violence in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.
ABOUT ISSA AMRO
Issa Amro is a Palestinian activist based in Hebron, West Bank. He is involved in monitoring the application of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He advocates the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to fight the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Issa was awarded a 2024 Right Livelihood laureate for his non-violent resistance work with Youth against Settlements (YAS) and in 2010, he was declared “human rights defender of the year in Palestine” by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Issa is also the co-founder of the NGO Artists + Allies x Hebron. His house in Tel Rumeida, Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, is constantly under threat and attack. It also serves as a community centre of the Palestinian civil society organisation Youth Against Settlements, which seeks to end settlement expansion through peaceful civil resistance.
ABOUT DIMA SROUJI
Dima Srouji is an architect and visual artist leading Underground Palestine MA City Design studio at the Royal College of Art in London. She was the 2022-2023 Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Stedelijk Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Institut du Monde Arabe, Corning Museum of Glass, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, MIT Libraries, and the Sharjah Art Foundation. She has exhibited works at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, Sharjah Art Biennial 15, Lagos Biennial 2024, Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019, Jeddah Islamic Art Biennale 2023, Doha Design Biennale, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Ford Foundation Gallery, Tai Kwun Museum, Institut du Monde Arabe, Alserkal Arts Foundation, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and others.
ACCESS
- This event is seated
- Wheelchair access and accessible toilets are available at this site.
- Please contact mail@southlondongallery.org with any additional access requirements or questions
