Clay Sheet Amulets, 2025
Wild clay sourced from Palestinian refugee camps, coal, hair, cotton.



This work is a series of wild clay amulets on canvas. These amulets are experiments made of wild clay sourced from a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, where the artist was born and raised. They are constructed with materials and scripts that have been used in Arab and Nordic folk medicine for healing and protection.

The artist believes that for the long path of indigenous resistance to colonial erasure, refugee camps as resistance structures transformed into living amulets as an embodiment of powers of protection. Protection from erasure and blindness to crimes against humanity.

Therefore, physical materials from Palestinian refugee camps are used in this work as the base of these amulets. These sheets are installed against the walls of the exhibition space using nails, mimicking the traditional way pendants have been used, and aiming at transforming the exhibition space into a sphere for protecting indigeneity against colonial violence.

This collection of clay sheets was developed in collaboration with figurative artist Hamza Jaber, who contributed as the artistic technique director.