PCAI is happy to announce that the PCAI collection artists Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme present Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom at The Bell Gallery at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Prisoners of Love represents the latest project from sound, video, and installation artists Basel Abbas (b. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1983) and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (b. Boston, 1983). Both hold Palestinian heritage. Featuring interviews with former political prisoners made on location in Palestine, the exhibition celebrates poetry, music, and art as forms of expressing individual and collective survivance within systems of incarceration across time and space.
At The Bell, Abbas and Abou-Rahme incorporate concrete, fabric, and weathered steel—carceral architecture—as the projection surfaces for their 64-minute sound and video installation to build, in the artists’ words, “a vast counter-archive to document Palestinian life.”
Kate Kraczon and Thea Quiray Tagle are the co-curators of this project at The Bell / Brown Arts Institute, an extension of the artists’ ongoing relationship with Kraczon, who produced their first US exhibition and catalog in 2015 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
This will be its only showcase in the United States.
Dates: February 19–May 31, 2026
More information here.
Image credit: Still from Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Prisoners of Love (2025).
Activity aligned with Goals 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17
