Jumana Manna
is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Jerusalem and Berlin. Her work explores the articulations of power through the body, land, and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Moving between the seemingly divergent media of film, abstract sculpture, and collage, Manna addresses how performing bodies, material fragments, and landscapes desire and narrate pasts, presents, and futures that remain excessive to the violences imposed upon them. Her work has dealt with the paradoxes of preservation—particularly with regards to land practices and the law—probing the tension between the modernist traditions of categorization and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life, and regeneration.