Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh explores the politics of tenderness

Arnolfini presents A land as big as her skin, featuring the UK debut of A Dance with her Myth (2024), the Venice Biennale pavilion installation by Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh — a radical feminist retelling of the myth of Europa that asks who gets to shape the story of Europe. At a time when questions of borders, migration and belonging continue to dominate political debate, Al Solh revisits the Phoenician tale of a princess abducted and carried across the sea, reframing it through contemporary histories of displacement and female agency. Born in Beirut and now living between Lebanon and the Netherlands, Al Solh grew up during the Lebanese civil war. Her work moves between personal memory and political history, weaving together ancient mythology and lived experience. Working across installation, painting, textiles and film, she explores migration, trauma, inequality and gender with irrepressible humour and visual intensity. At the heart of the exhibition is a life-