Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom

In the film, a woman remembers a song she learned in prison, whose lyrics longed for the prison in ruins. Singing it got her put in solitary confinement. She says the joy and laughter it gave her and her fellow prisoners made it worth it.

You enter through a labyrinth of metal panels hung with black-and-white photographs and drawings by Tawfik Abou-Rahme, Ruanne's late father, beside letters and poems in English and Arabic, with the same images printed on sheer fabric overhead. Next door, a three-channel film weaves testimonies recorded across the occupied West Bank with poems and songs. MACBA calls the sound "dense, enveloping and insistent". New engravings and projections sit in cell-like niches, and the duo's 2009 video Collapse is shown alongside.

It's their first show in Spain, and DXI Magazine called it "a space of listening": come for voices and images, not objects. It's in the general MACBA ticket, with guided visits on Sundays. Originally closing in September, it now runs to 17 January 2027.