Bint Mbareh

Artist and sound researcher Bint Mbareh (b. 1995, Nablus, Palestine) lives and works between London and Ramallah. Her interest in physical parallels between water waves and sound waves has led her to question border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses) and investigate potential similarities between being enveloped by the voice and being enveloped by a body of water. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by reclaiming Palestinian ways of knowing—from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage—as instigators for political revolution.