Opening on 12 November 2026, MACRO welcomes we walk in our sleep المُتَجاوِزُون by Noor Abed in its first presentation in Italy. Made in 2026 and filmed in Palestine over 2025 and 2026 on Super 8, the film was commissioned by the Matter of Art Biennale and BredaPhoto Festival, co-produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation with the support of the Mondriaan Fund.

Noor Abed’s (Palestine, 1988) practice brings together performance and film, using song, voice and bodily movement as tools of self-determination and resistance. Her work examines the relationship between the sharing of emotions and the formation of communities, creating new imaginaries and challenging dominant narratives. The figures who inhabit her work, who are often women, typically move through almost metaphysical landscapes. The ritualistic nature of their gestures and the performative quality of their bodies take on a dimension that is at once political and poetic. For Abed, folklore and popular traditions are still-living material, to be reactivated and reimagined.

Filmed in Super 8 in 2026 and subsequently digitised, we walk in our sleep المُتَجاوِزُون (“the transcenders”) unfolds around the monologues of two women who come together and drift apart through words, transforming language into a means of rupture and self-affirmation. The images move through a liminal space between the living and the dead, exploring the Palestinian landscape and its historical, cultural and spiritual layers. Scenes of everyday life alternate with choreographed sequences featuring collective, geometric movements inspired by ancient choreographic practices. The synchronised movements of bodies set against centuries-old architecture, the remnants of urban landscapes and places marked by mourning give shape to a collective ritual and a declaration of love for one's land. The film's visual and sonic language opens up alternative ways of imagining the Palestinian territory, in contrast to the closures and divisions that define the present.