We were delighted to present Sarah Al-Sarraj’s first solo show in London, Limbs of the Lunar Disc, combining large-scale paintings and digital storytelling at Mimosa House. The show explored time, ancestry, and ecological violence through a temporally nomadic tribe that traversed millennia to resist imperial destruction.

Featuring Separated by Millennia, a series of oil paintings depicting the tribe’s fractured existence. Using ancient Arab astronavigation tools like the kamal, the tribe manipulate time, prioritising ancestral connections over linear colonial histories. The work drew on theologian Laura Nasrallah’s concept of “ancestral assemblage,” framing time as a non-linear space where past and future can coexist.

A new digital installation, Isthmus Ancient River, commissioned by the Metronich Library, expanded on the paintings by guiding viewers through a collapsing future where the West Bank’s apartheid wall lies in ruins, and ancient landscapes are altered by ecological disruption.

Blending Indigenous temporal systems with speculative fiction, Limbs of the Lunar Disc reimaged time beyond colonial constructs, prioritising intergenerational connection and ancestral continuity.

The exhibition programme included a preview on 22nd May, alongside two programmed events:  Ripples Across Different Timelines, a sonic performance by Gisou Golshani on 27th May, and Stories from the Satellite Dish, a conversation between Sarah Al-Sarraj and Dalia al-Dujaili on 31st May.