We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction (2019–2020)
(2019–2020)
Inas Halabi
Palestinian
1988
We Have Always Known the Wind's Direction
February 13-August 16, 2026
Overview
Inas Halabi, We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction (2019–2020), HD video, color, sound, Arabic, 12 min
How do you make the invisible visible? In this experimental film, artist Inas Halabi collaborates with nuclear physicist Dr. Khalil Thabayneh to document the presence of Cesium-137—a radioactive byproduct of nuclear fission—in the West Bank landscape. As they journey through the terrain, Thabayneh holds translucent red plastic filters before the camera lens, their intensity corresponding to the density of radiation measured at each site. The landscape transforms into shifting shades of red, rendering the unseen carcinogenic threat temporarily, hauntingly visible.
On view in the New Media Gallery