MOMA PS1
he first United States survey of filmmaker and artist Jumana Manna, “Break, Take, (2022), looks at Palestinian practices of gathering culinary plants such as and and how Israeli authorities have criminalized these activities as part of its occupation. The film builds on the themes of environmental and cultural extinction explored in Manna’s earlier (2018), which documented a Syrian agricultural research center displaced to Lebanon and their replication of seeds from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. While Manna’s films explore tactics of resilience, her sculptural works are inspired by fragments of , archaic grain storage units once used in the Levant.
