The Practice of Accumulation

Wadi Finan Art Gallery in Amman presents "The Practice of Accumulation", a group exhibition with work by Hussam Hasan, Lara Salous and Noor Bseiso, from 10 to 31 October 2026. Samia Kayyali curated the show, which the gallery hosts as a participating space of Amman Design Week. The works include photographs of stone quarries, an installation of thread, fleece and projected video, and shaped paintings that run from the wall onto the floor.

The exhibition treats accumulation as something people do rather than something that simply exists. It asks who gathers, by what means, where and on what terms. The question moves from household objects and cloth to the faces of buildings, and then to the social and political systems behind them. Each artist follows one thread: the work of hands, the making of textile under occupation, and the small traces that build up in daily life.

Hasan's "The Architectural Scale: Unravelling the Wall" follows building stone back to the place where it is cut. A photograph of a quarry covers a whole wall, with a lorry crossing its dusty track. Set into it is a framed image of workers hauling stone onto a truck. Further framed photographs of rubble and of a man on a heap of cut stone rest on plinths. Salous's section, "The Urban Scale: Threading the Land", fills a room painted deep blue. Curtains of fine thread catch a projected landscape, beside low stone blocks and a tall column wrapped in raw fleece. Her wall text ties the wool to flocks, and the flocks to grazing land that occupation has made ever harder to reach.

Bseiso is a Palestinian Jordanian artist, born in 1998 and based in Amman, who paints in acrylic on canvas and draws on her experience as a set designer. Her canvases here are cut to irregular outlines. In one, a meal around a dining table runs down the wall and becomes a painted rug, with a concrete block and other objects placed on it. In another, two figures recline on a chequered ground among red poppies, near a football. Sculpted vases topped with flower forms stand on stone blocks. The gallery reads her familiar rooms and objects as places where memory gathers. The installation photographs are by Nabil Quteineh.