Artists: Ala Younis / Ali Eyal
Curated by: Silvia Franceschini

Opening Feb 6th, 2026 - more info here

Onomatopee is delighted to present the first two-person exhibition of Ala Younis and Ali Eyal. The exhibition centers on the artists’ shared explorations of what history leaves behind: fragments, ghosts, dreams, and unresolved narratives.

Through works that address the destruction and reconstruction brought about by times of war, the artists interweave personal and collective experiences, opening space for minor histories, fragile circulations, and affective solidarities. Their practices address intersecting forms of collapse, revealing the erosion of families, museums, and ideologies, and what emerges in their aftermaths.

About the artists

Ala Younis’s archival installations, textiles, drawings, and books forge subtle yet startling connections across political, social, urban, and popular imaginaries. Informed by her training in architecture and visual cultures, Younis’s projects focus on the physical transformations and narrative intersections of the Arab geographies in which she grew up. Her work frequently draws from female viewpoints and embraces multiple protagonists and histories, countering dominant storylines. Across her investigations, oil politics, war, heritage, modernism, nationalism, and internationalism intersect.

Ali Eyal employs imagination and storytelling to denounce the hardships posed by war and occupation. Through films, painting and photography, he taps into the power of fiction and crafts narratives depicting characters striving to overcome the challenges of their land, serving as allegories for resistance. Eyal weaves together elusive fragments and shards—personal memories, dreams, nightmares—assembling them in a disfigured whole which becomes a commentary on the impossibility of (coherent) narrative in the face of ongoing chaos and destruction.

General opening hours
February 7–May 10, 2026
Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 12-5 PM
At Onomatopee

Exhibition opening

Friday, February 6, 2026
7:30–10 PM (doors open 7 PM)

Free entrance + free drink
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Program line

The duo exhibition by Ala Younis and Ali Eyal is the third exhibition in the five-year program Systems and Territories. The program focuses on monographic and thematic exhibitions, which stem from long-term investigations and collaborations between artists, researchers, and communities critically examining categories, structures and ideologies upholding global modernity.

Publication

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication, published by Onomatopee.