Marta Popivoda and Pary El-Qalqili ~ ICH BIN HIER ICH BIN DA ( Video 2025, 15 minutes)

In 2025, Marta Popivoda (she/her) and Pary El-Qalqili (she/her) collaborated on a video installation centred on (elderly) Palestinian women in Berlin — women whose lives have been shaped by displacement, exclusion, and erasure, yet despite this, have become active participants in the Palestinian solidarity movement. At a time when dissenting voices are increasingly suppressed, the work amplifies their presence and traces how bodies, memories, and testimonies resist marginalisation and erasure. Departing from a shared interest of both artists in the body as an archive of anti-fascist resistance, the installation intertwines personal narratives, gestures, and protest landscapes, creating a cinematic space where memory, politics, and belonging coexist in tension. Their collaboration unites feminist and decolonial approaches to storytelling. El-Qalqili’s cinematic practice explores nonlinear and fragmentary narratives that challenge colonial and patriarchal structures of representation, while Popivoda’s work examines the relationships between body, history, and ideology through feminist storytelling and radical slowness. Together, they create a collective space of remembrance and imagination: a landscape of solidarity in which the voices, gestures, and presences of women form a living archive of political becoming, connecting past and present struggles for justice and liberation.

The screening was selected as the opening towards a conversation between

Pary El-Qalqili and Quinsy Gario in the context of

APRiCot Garden 2026: If Not Here, Then Where? Making Our Home in Shared Struggle

ICH BIN HIER ICH BIN DA will be presented on the 4th of October as one-off screening so,

this time not as video-installation.