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![A still from Larissa Sansour’s ‘Nation State’ video, which depicts a solution for Palestine that condenses it into a high-rise theme park. Iwan Baan / The Palestinian Museum](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/MMVK6TDRY33O2XIU54677BWL5A.jpg?smart=true&auth=1290d1260a1d97fdfb2b515d377ae52d67ddef4068abd0b7428f8bd923a003b2&width=400&height=225)
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![‘Yaffa’, 1979, by Sliman Mansour shows bountiful trees, typical of Palestinian paintings in the 1970s. The woman in embroidery represents the motherland. Courtesy Sliman Mansour and Yvette and Mazen Qupty Collection](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/4FGOSM27XI64DO7LE7QRIE3FX4.jpg?smart=true&auth=c9131086f9c47021459a5c410d7ae9c1390e2c9144c0b39efa0874ab366738bb&width=400&height=225)
![A still from Larissa Sansour’s ‘Nation State’ video, which depicts a solution for Palestine that condenses it into a high-rise theme park. Iwan Baan / The Palestinian Museum](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/MMVK6TDRY33O2XIU54677BWL5A.jpg?smart=true&auth=1290d1260a1d97fdfb2b515d377ae52d67ddef4068abd0b7428f8bd923a003b2&width=400&height=225)
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Intimate Terrains: the exhibition that spans nearly nine decades of Palestinian art
The exhibition represents Palestinian artists from Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, also Israel and many from the diaspora who are unable to visit Palestine
William Parry
August 18, 2019
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