Name: Guided Tours - The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return
Start: 2025-10-26T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-12-14T15:00:00-04:00
Location: 175 Washington St

Guided Tours - The Lost Paintings: A Prelude to Return

In this exhibition, contemporary artists from Palestine and the diaspora reclaim history and reimagine 53 paintings lost to the Nakba.
About this Event

This traveling exhibition spans two Boston venues—the Brookline Arts Center and Unbound Visual Arts. To learn more about the works and the artists shown at UVA, sign up for guided tours that will be led by the curatorial team.

Curated by Rula Khoury, Haidi Motola, and Joëlle Tomb, this traveling exhibition gathers 53 artists from Palestine and its diaspora across time and borders to reimagine the missing works of Maroun Tomb, a Palestinian-Lebanese artist, whose 1947 exhibition in Haifa was lost amid the mass displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians during the Nakba. The works resurrect a moment that was nearly erased until it was discovered in archival documents.

Drawing from the minimal information of Tomb’s last exhibition in Palestine before his forced exile, the contemporary artists’ responses navigate across painting, photography, multi-media, sculpture and video to move between what was and what could be. They do not reconstruct the past, but reclaim it—through fragments, gestures, and stories passed across generations. Bringing together today’s rising artists alongside the trailblazers of Palestinian modern art, this exhibition is a collective act of resistance paired with interrogation of colonial violence and its consequences on multiple generations.

This traveling exhibition spans two Boston venues—the Brookline Arts Center and Unbound Visual Arts—and is presented in partnership with the Boston Palestine Film Festival. It is produced with the support from the Kone Foundation, the Fouad & May Tomb Foundation for the Arts, the Mass Cultural Council, and private donors.

Featured Works:
Original Prints by Maroun Tomb

More information about the exhibition here.

UVA’s gallery is located at 175 Washington St., Brighton, MA 02135 – inside of the large historically preserved church. The gallery is on the lower level of the building. There is an accessible ramp in the rear of the building and an elevator inside. For parking, please park on Washington St.