Addam Yekutieli aka Know Hope

KNOW HOPE | TRAILER DROP We’re excited to finally be bringing our film ‘Know Hope’ to the US in the next few months! We’re hard at work planning the tour, but in the meantime, enjoy this powerful trailer! 📽️ KNOW HOPE follows artist and activist Addam Yekutieli (@thisislimbo ) as he uses his work as a form of resistance in Palestine-Israel against the ongoing genocide. When he faces chronic illness, his murals become a self-fulfilling prophecy. His disease, like the disease of the land on which he steps, walks the line between hope and despair. Stay tuned for tour dates coming soon!

After a month and a half of deranged, small men wreaking havoc on real, actual people, we’re left with millions displaced, homes, hospitals, schools, holy sites, and energy facilities destroyed. Unfathomable amounts of resources have been squandered, resources spent at the expense of things people actually need. Above all, it is those who paid the highest price with their lives: the children, the civilians, those without access to protection. They are the ultimate loss. I hesitate to call this war “pointless,” as many have, because that risks cheapening the sacred value of those whose lives were taken for the whims of psychopaths and their enablers, and because it suggests that there are wars that are ever truly beneficial or just. It was a war launched for imperialist motivations and branded as liberation, backed by hubris and arrogance (Is it logically possible that a state sustained by the oppression of an entire people can liberate another? Even more so, by bombing them?). The story we told ourselves lured us into an expanding trail of devastation for so many, and a new routine of ballistic missiles falling on our neighborhoods. This has been a war of regression, sliding quickly into yet more ethnic cleansing across the region, into more obscene genocidal rhetoric we continue to normalize, embedding deeper the logic of aggression and brute force, manufacturing consent for new levels of the barbaric into our collective DNA. What is most disheartening is not that so many supported this war automatically, as if by default, but the knowledge that many will buy into the next one as well. As individuals, we have little control over these global power plays, but we are their economy. As long as we continue buying into war, war is what we will be sold- and the price will only get higher as we back and feed this machine by using the vocabulary it dictates to us.

As we are in the midst of Passover, the Jewish holiday that marks the liberation of the oppressed, resistance, and ethical inheritance, we take a moment to reflect on Gaza: What happens when the tables turn? When it is our Pharaoh who is annihilating an entire people? While the story of Passover centers the people and children of Israel, today we think of the children of Palestine who are robbed of the most fundamental right to experience childhood. Hundreds of thousands of children have lost parents, homes, friends, and teachers. They have lost their schools, playgrounds, soccer fields, and community centers. They are living under constant danger, in ongoing trauma. It is our moral responsibility, our human contract with one another, to speak loudly where silence and apathy are encouraged; to act in solidarity where the actions carried out in our name are marked by deep atrocities; and to insist that liberation must be for all. We, @culture_of_solidarity , are raising funds for the Hind Rajab Educational Center in Gaza. The center operates in Khan Younis and supports around 80 children aged 8-12, providing educational, psychological, and social support. It works to bridge learning gaps caused by living under genocide, and to create a safe, nurturing, and supportive space for children living through continuous trauma. For this initiative, we’ve partnered with @dignity4palestine for our second collaboration with the organization. In previous efforts, we raised over 50,000 NIS for flour sacks distributed among displaced families in Gaza. Now, we are working together once more. Donate (from wherever you are in the world) and share this link with your family, friends, and colleagues. All children deserve a prosperous and safe childhood. Thank you Link in bio 🤍 Design by @noawiegenfeld

A week’s worth of questions — 1. Bombardment in Tehran, March 4, 2026 2. Backpack belonging to a child from the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran. On February 28, 2026, a US missile attacked the school, killing approximately 175 people, the majority of whom were children. 3. Bombardment in Beirut, March 3, 2026 4. Scene from the Israeli attacks on oil depots around Tehran, March 7-8, 2026. The strikes ignited massive fires, killing several people and producing toxic smoke and ‘black rain,’ causing long-term environmental contamination and projections of respiratory illness, cancer risk, and possible disruption of rainfall. 5. Israeli soldier demolishing a memorial to Yasser Arafat in Zababdeh (Jenin Governorate), West Bank, March 2026 6. Graves being dug for victims of the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girl’s school in Minab. 7. Bombardment in Beirut, March 5, 2026. Roughly 670,000 people have been displaced following Israeli attacks on Lebanon and a blanket evacuation order.

. ‘The Echoes Will Follow Us All’ North Jordan Valley (West Bank), February 2025 In the background, a billboard installed by a settler organization features a photo of the forced displacement in Gaza, and reads “There is no future for you in Palestine” The Jordan Valley, as with all of Area C, is on the brink of full annexation and is being violently ethnically cleansed of its native Palestinian population at the hands of state-backed settler militias and the military. — This image is part of a collaborative project in progress by Addam Yekutieli and Jacob Lazarus that documents hand-painted banners held and placed in symbolic locations across Israel–Palestine. The texts, written in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, are drawn from social media exchanges Addam has had since October 7th, 2023, mainly sparked from responses he’s received to posts he’s made throughout this period. Once removed from their original digital context and re-situated in physical space, the juxtaposition of text and location highlights manifestations of erasure and apartheid, reflecting a society in a time of genocide, where past and present are bound together.

. ANNUAL RAMADAN FOOD AID FUNDRAISER Ahead of Ramadan, we stand in solidarity with Palestinian communities in the West Bank living under state-backed settler terrorism. Over the past two and a half years the humanitarian crisis in the West Bank has continued to worsen: a sharp escalation in settler terror, the forced displacement of entire communities, the destruction of refugee camps, and the systematic deepening of poverty and hunger through restrictions on access to land, brutal attacks during the annual olive harvest, and the sweeping cancellation of work permits. Together with many partners, activists, and grassroots organizations, we operate a food aid network for Palestinian communities in Area C. To date, we have distributed more than 5,000 food packs to dozens of communities, including communities violently expelled from their land, which we continue to support even after their displacement. With Ramadan coming, shortages and rising prices turn this month as well into a heavy challenge for many families. Through the current campaign, we aim to support approximately 500 families by raising 125,000 NIS. The food aid initiative is a channel of solidarity within the communities’ larger struggle over their homes, their land, and their livelihoods - a form to strengthen the communities as they stand against the atrocities of the occupation, in the face of increasing efforts to forcibly expel them. Although our aid is far from meeting the full scope of the communities’ material needs, it still stands as a meaningful avenue of support and resistance. Ramadan is a month of generosity and responsibility. Every donation, small or large, helps us reach more families and communities. Solidarity and collective resistance and belief that the occupation will be dismantled are the form of hope that we must continue to hold onto. To support (from anywhere in the world) check the link in my bio.

Join us for a screening of Omer Shamir’s film ‘Know Hope- The Abstract and the Very Real’ this Friday at 11:30 at @telavivmuseumofart I’ll be there for a post-screening conversation with curator Tal Lanir. Tickets in bio 🗺️

‘Who Will Remember This For Us?’ Sderot, March 2025 Located aside the Gaza border, this military memorial site has become a viewpoint where visitors and tourists watch the bombardment of Gaza and the destruction it leaves behind. — This image is part of a collaborative project in progress by Addam Yekutieli and Jacob Lazarus that documents hand-painted banners held and placed in symbolic locations across Israel–Palestine. The texts, written in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, are drawn from social media exchanges Addam has had since October 7th, 2023, mainly sparked from responses he’s received to posts he’s made throughout this period. Once removed from their original digital context and re-situated in physical space, the juxtaposition of text and location highlights manifestations of erasure and apartheid, reflecting a society in a time of genocide, where past and present are bound together.

A moment to reflect on our first self-distributed tour for Know Hope: The Abstract and the Very Real, made possible with our dear partners at Tikkun Olam Productions. Across packed rooms, brave conversations, and audiences who showed up in the December cold ready to listen, question, and stay in the complexity, this journey reminded us what film can do in the world. Not just screen stories, but open space. Not just document reality, but move people inside it. Deep gratitude to every venue, grassroots partner, moderator, and volunteer who carried this film forward with us. To Omer Shamir for creating a film that continues to resonate far beyond the screen, and to Addam Yekutieli AKA Know Hope for his art. West Coast… we’re coming for you soon.

I first met @swoonhq during her 2007 visit to Bethlehem, when she was there as part of Santa’s Ghetto, the project and exhibition organized by Banksy. I had been spending time in the area, doing interventions on and around the Apartheid Wall, and was so happy to meet one of the artists who influenced me most at the time. One of Callie’s pieces on the wall featured a woman (shoutout @zahrasherzad ) with cursive writing flowing from her dress. The passage read: “When the Bay Bridge fell in the last San Francisco earthquake, we learned that structures resonate to a frequency. A vibration that matches their internal rhythm can bring them down—massive structures tremble. And a fence is only as strong as its point of attachment to its base.” As I eventually began working with different communities and developing participatory projects, taking cues and learning from Callie and other artists working in similar ways, I started merging activism with my art practice. The values I saw in her work- holding the personal story, listening deeply, and creating situations of vulnerability and empathy in places shaped by complex circumstance, became foundational for me. I understood that the work can’t happen without them. That passage has stayed with me for years, residing in the back of my mind and reemerging as a reminder that seemingly small acts, individual gestures, can shift something in a larger structure. Artmaking (and activism) feels, for me, like finding and opening access points- the right words, the right tone of voice, the right moment to speak to others in a way that allows for a re-imagining of our realities of annihilation, erasure, and violence. Hopefully, if we choose carefully, we can find the resonances that topple and undo the structures that sustain these realities. As someone who often feels debilitated or helpless in the face of said structures, this idea has been a paradigm shift- realizing that every action, no matter how small, has an accumulative, compounding effect in this resonation. I hope you can join us this Tuesday, Dec. 2, for the screening of the film, where I’ll have the privilege of being in conversation with Callie afterwards.

There’s No Neutral Tone of Voice, 2024 Oil, Acrylic, Vintage Book, Wood Assemblage, 62x52 cm Photo by @dorevenchen