Lara Khaldi

Exchange between Inas Halabi and Lara Khaldi, archive

RFID-tag

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, archive

RFID tag for objects on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Troll#3 – Un jugete de plastico, un troll occidental, 2024

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Un jugete de plastico, un troll occidental. Suelo tajerlos y usarlos como totem magico en proyectos de arte. Este in especial lo encontré ?eldra se? “POOS” ?esterba alvera? y estuba esperando usarlo para algo important y tiene una buena energia isualdes cen les artistes

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

St. Christopher Medal

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It belonged to my grandmother, and has travelled from Portugal to Mozambique, to South Africa and finally The Netherlands.

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

casa de barro / clay house, 2020

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This house I made during the pandemic. [illegible] my home back in the [illegible] it is an object that holds home. [illegible] ceramics the burial objects, this one needed to become one. I want this object to be a companion for friend Francisca <3
Material: clay


Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Pimiento de Árbol de Canelo, 2022

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

Árbol de Canelo is a sacred medical tree for the Mapuche. The people who are ancestial to now so called Chile, the territory were khamis family exiled and now we. This is a mutual recognition of fights for land.
Material: glass, seeds of Canelo tree, paper


Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Dodo keychain, 2018

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

A keychain of a dodo from Mauritius, gifted by my parents

materials: wood, metal

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Ceramic Fragmenst / a Stone, year unknown, the land before time -> 5 million years

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

1 These Fragments tiles have been with me for years and the blues and whites reminded me of my dear friend Kat (german/palestinan) Solitair and the jewellery they were making with palestinan tiles. I thought about fragments and repair. The memory of ?cahiers? and vessels from previous times. Fragments as an invitation towards what was, and what could be.

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Ceramic Fragmenst / a Stone, year unknown, the land before time -> 5 million years

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

2. It’s significance is something about its weight but also about time. The time it takes to form being in solidarity with the stones of the house ( Con las piedras de la case en Palestine)

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

USB stick, 2025

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

this USB stick contains screenshots from a Mine-test construction made by my son. He built 2 appartments under a glass dome. The appartments and the dome appeared to him in a dream. We are trying to meet in our dreams when we are apart. One of the appartments is for my son and me and the other for him and his father. We found out that we both dream of homes so we try to focus on this before going to sleep. This technique was taught to us by Daniel Godínez-Nivón. It helps to overcome the distance between us and the longing for eachother.

Materials: Plastic, metal

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

IDR 75000 (75 years of independence), 2020

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Indonesian 75 years of independence commemoration. This money never used as a currency for transaction but more as a collectible item. This collection is showing also first President & Vice President. Palestine is one of the first countries that give recognitizion for `Indonesian independence by Grand Mufti on 6th of September 1944 via Radio Berlin.

material: money
Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

A letter, A name, A stone, 2024

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

The envelope contains a picture of me and my grandmother, after whom I’m named. There is a message for her, het old house, a wish, and a note for all the women of my house – past and future – and more and more women (past and future) everywhere... The green stone – I forgot the name – is supposed to take and return negative energies – I wish lightness and warm energies to my grandma and all the women in the world.

material: 1 envelope, 1 stone (5cm)

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Ley and Laila, 2025

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Valentines gift from a lover and dear friend bonding our connection started over mutual roots as jewish morrocans and being anti-zionist jews. These roses will perish over time but they will keep existing in spirit. Free Palestine

material: 2 x dried roses tied together with a red & white cord

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Palestine Sunbird, 2025

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Sunbird is Palestine’s national bird. This bird is more than a symbol of Palestine; it embodies the profound hope for freedom and aspiration of return. -> will send full story by email or add a printed story with the plate to be buried together

material: ceramics fired

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Mientras Agonizo, William Faulkner, 1930

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a spanish translation of the American southern gothic “classic” by William Faulkner wherein protagonist Addie Bundren makes her family promise to bury her in her hometown 100s miles away from where they live. They deliver her body on foot. The secret is I don’t think that Faulkner wrote the novel alone

material: Paper ( a book! )

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

usb-stick content unknown

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tbh i joined spontaneously today but ive been carrying this usb-stick with me for a long time in case of emergency and so it carries a collection of personal files and works that have at some point needed transfer the exact contents are unknown to me and ive not been able to check before lending it to this project

material: usb-stick

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

ABEJA, 2025

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The language of the bees, made of dances in the air, that is the point. A bee dancing around a figtree.

material: wood, rubber, ink

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Shots or only the clothe of a shot

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I bought this collection of shots last year in Armenia. I carried it in my bag the whole year. Last year we (some Iranians) went to a village in Armenia and hosted by a palestinian and Armenian friends, it was one week after 7 of Oct. and the genocide was also happening in Armenia and it was the anniversary of Woman Life Freedom, we were all angry and crying, while harvesting apples and making juice and our alcohol and drinking. it was special moments. shots remind me of collective intimate times.

materials: leather, cotton

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

A spiral being, 2021

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Shells are often found in graves, as an item that travels to the afterlife together with the deceased. and this shell contains a spiral, a spiral of being, being between th einside and outside. the being of a spiral time where the past, present and future are in constant relation with each other, always present and in movement. a spiral time being buried means not the end of something but it’s continuation.

material: resin

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Untitled, 2022

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this note was given to me during the women’s uprising in Tehran. A stranger woman gave it to me in the street. The written text on it says ”with your hair and courage, the world is a better place to live in”. It was a secret way of resistance, acknowledgement between women who were resisting and refusing to wear vail.

material: paper, felt

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

pocket mirror, 2015

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

A very old traditional mirror, given to me by a secret love in my childhood

material: mirror, paper

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

tiny knife with fortune cookie wish, year unknown

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

I found this tiny knife in the wall of my grandma’s paintin studio after her passing, along with a few odd objects. I added, surrounding th eknif a note taken from a fortune cookie that reads ( in 4 differnet llanguages): “your life will be happy and peaceful”

material: mmetal, bakclite, paper, ink, tape

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Reasons for Staying, 2025

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This poem by Ocean Vuong has great significance to my sense of belonging to this world. It helped or nourished my survival and will to stay, and i imagine it could do the same to others in Palestine or elsewhere.

material: paper, pen (ink)

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Woven Moneybag, Iris, 2025

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An object woven by my wife Iris Amleh

material: woven cotton

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Strawberry Cast, 2021

interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)

A strawberry is sweet but casts a history of harm. This one’s seeds are a negative. made harmless

material: clay

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Lemon Seed, 2025

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Imagining lemon tree growing on the archive



Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Text with black string, 2025
part of wedding bouquet, 2025

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text written about the house by lender + black string for protection (please photograph paper folded)
fragment of wedding

material: paper, string, dried twig, berries

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Orah / Walnut, 2012

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It is a walnut from family garden in Former Yuguslavia. It is given as a secret to help one in need in case of injury, it should provode quick recovery & strong bones

material: edible seed

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Matchbox, 2025

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A box of long matches which are good to start a fire to cook in. Or to burn it all down

material: cardboard box, long matches

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Hand warmer, 2024

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Hand warmer used during the anti-martial law protests for South Korea in Amsterdam, Dec, 2024

material: iron, water, salt, active caby, superabsorbent polymer vermiculite

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Grand mother jacket, 1952

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My granny, Anna Benedictouna Gecova was a jewish and as many shared the true values and I am sure she will be happy with my choice.

material: Jakkard

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E

Pedagogy of the oppressed, Paolo Freire, 2017 (1968)

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A guidebook to make revolutionary practice a dimension of life, not a preparation for it.*

material: paper, glue, ink

Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E