Landmark
Mixed media sculpture installation: wood thread on industrial metal sheets, 360 cm x 41 cm x 38 cm (141 in x 16 in x 15 in), 2025 - ongoing
Landmark is an evolving installation in which Nardeen Srouji reclaims traditional Palestinian embroidery patterns. Enlarged and embroidered in wool onto industrial metal sheets—materials originally used to fence, divide, or separate—the patterns appear as interrupted, incomplete fragments.
The work reflects on the current state of Wadi Salib– once the heart of Haifa before the Nakba and the name of one of Tomb’s lost works– now reduced to scattered architectural remnants. The neighborhood is isolated from the rest of the city by institutional buildings. Like the embroidery itself, Wadi Salib continues to exist in other forms and on other surfaces, refusing to be forgotten.
Landmark transforms traditional Palestinian embroidery into a spatial testimony—a visual and tactile language that speaks through fragmented patterns of both architecture and embroidery. These fragments symbolize places and histories that no longer exist in their original, intact forms, resonating with the broader experience of Palestinian art and culture.
Landmark actively reclaims the exhibition space itself, transforming it into a living landscape that the artwork inhabits and reshapes, allowing the installation to grow organically, adapting to and engaging with its surroundings, extending the geography of the work and symbolically reclaiming space, presence and cultural continuity.
Nardeen Srouji is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist born in Nazareth and based in Haifa. Srouji’s work centers on interventions that explore the fragile tensions and gaps between stability and instability, placement and displacement, familiarity and estrangement. Her practice investigates how identities and memories are negotiated in spaces marked by absence and loss. She received her MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and a BA from Haifa University in English Literature and Fine Arts. She also holds diplomas in Fashion Design and Art Studies and Education. In addition to her first solo exhibition at the Haifa Museum of Art in 2022, she has exhibited locally in numerous shows and biennials. She has participated in international residencies such as Artport Tel Aviv, ISCP in New York, and Fountainhead in Miami.