Noor Abuarafeh (* 1986) is an artist based between Jerusalem and Rotterdam, working primarily with video, performance, publications, and video installations. Her work delves into the different forms of historical representation, including memory, storytelling, museums, and archives, as well as the challenge of tracing absences. Noor Abuarafeh’s art questions the possibility of narrating the past through immaterial means that transcend modern historical representation.
She has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2022), Berlin Biennale (2020), Sharjah Biennale 13 (2017), Off-Biennale Gaudipolis in Budapest (2017), and Qalandia International in Jerusalem (2018), among others. In 2019, she held her first solo exhibition, *The Moon is a Sun Returning as a Ghost*, in Jerusalem and Ramallah, curated by Lara Khaldi.
During her residency at philomena+ she works together with Vienna-based artist Huda Takriti to present the exhibition project Several Attempts for Not Forgetting reflecting on collective grief, witnessing, recording, and the ever changing role of archives in truth-making.
