Viewing Dima Srouji: A Cosmogram of Holy Views at Ab-Anbar Gallery

A Cosmogram of Holy Views (10 October – 29 November 2025) marks Dima Srouji’s first solo exhibition in London – a powerful debut and a statement about memory, architecture, colonial erasure, and the sacred geography of Palestine.

Organised as a triptych across three spaces themed around the body, the spirit, and the land, each installation reclaiming fragments of Palestinian presence material, architectural, emotional — through acts of reconstruction, ritual, and refusal. Through glass, archival work, text, maps, and other media, Srouji weaves together what she terms a “cosmogram”: not a map of heaven, but a grounded map of memory in which sacredness is inseparable from land, history, and lived bodies.

Srouji confronts the discordant tension between the reverence for “The Holy Land” in the West and the reality of displacement and destruction, embodied in works that evoke ruin and collapse, but also insistence, repair, presence. The exhibition refuses to let heritage become only ornamental. A Cosmogram of Holy Views is an ambitious and necessary exhibition, both for its aesthetic sensitivity and its political stakes. It doesn’t shy from asking hard questions about what is sacred, who counts as holy, and who is allowed to belong.