Artist Nsenga Knight reflects on art as truth-telling and resistance — from Gaza to her own works like Metem and Tawaf/Sa’y — highlighting how artists worldwide bear witness, remember, and challenge injustice.
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The Power of Returning Home: Art, Memory, and Belonging
Two years ago, I returned from my first trip to Guyana — my mother’s homeland. Nearly a year later, I began creating Metem, a film that I knew would be about more than documenting my family’s journey back. In fact, you never actually see Guyana as a place in the film. Instead, Metem unfolds through memory, food, andContinue reading “The Power of Returning Home: Art, Memory, and Belonging”
No Neutral Ground: From Gaza’s Freedom Flotillas to Standing Up for Justice
A reflection on courage, truth-telling, and finding one’s role in the fight for justice—whether in the streets, in art,Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif’s killing highlights a stark choice: uphold injustice or resist it. From Gaza’s flotillas to local protests, every voice matters.
Hope, Not Just Aid: Art, Palestine, and the Tradition We Carry
In this artist reflection, Nsenga Knight connects her installation The Clinic and print Malcolm X in Turban to the story of Chris Smalls and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Through art and family, she explores Black–Palestinian solidarity, global resistance, and the role of art in delivering hope.
Now Free Someone Else.
I’ve been sick all week with the flu , mashaAllah, and tho I didn’t make it to the museum to work in my studio not one single day this past week, I did catch almost all of the ICJ South Africa vs Israel genocide hearings. Toni Morrison said that “after you have freed yourself, you need to freeContinue reading “Now Free Someone Else.”
You, Me, and the Houthi
The new year is right around the corner, and if something drastic doesn’t happen, we’re going to welcome it with the ongoing genocide of innocent Palestinians. It is unfortunate that this is the reality we live in, but it’s a reminder that a safe, prospering world is the responsibility of every single one of us.Continue reading “You, Me, and the Houthi”
Live from PALESTINE
I don’t think I had ever witnessed a Black woman reporting international news from abroad on a major TV network until just a few weeks ago when I saw Nima Elbagir – a Black woman fluent in Arabic, in Jerusalem covering the release of a number of Palestinian people from Israeli prisons as part ofContinue reading “Live from PALESTINE “