As part of this year’s London Design Festival (LDF), V&A South Kensington presents Not Your Martyr, a memorial display by London-based Lebanese artist Ramzi Mallat, known for his evocative engagement with memory, loss and collective resistance. This display is curated by Rachel Dedman, the V&A’s Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East.

Installed in V&A South Kensington’s iconic Medieval and Renaissance Gallery from 13 September to 19 October 2025, Not Your Martyr is a commemorative memorial created in honor of the victims of the 4th August 2020 Beirut Port blast which claimed over 250 lives, displaced thousands, and devastated the city. 2025 marks both the five-year anniversary of the Beirut Port explosion and the fifty-year commemoration of the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975.

Not Your Martyr will be on display at the Medieval and Renaissance Gallery (50A) of the V&A South Kensington from 13 September – 19 October 2025

Supported by the V&A’s Jameel Programme.