Hanging within Harb’s installation, is the oil painting “Girl in the Village” by Sliman Mansour. The artist, whose career spans over 50 years, is among the most distinguished and established artists from Palestine. Having dedicated his artistic career to visualising the Palestinian struggle through history, his subjects speak to the 1948 Nakba, Palestinian folk culture, villagers and farmers, olive groves, and orange trees. His practice ultimately articulates the unwavering faithfulness, dedication and resoluteness of Palestinian societies. In this work from 1982, Mansour depicts a standing young woman wearing a traditional Palestinian dress (the thobe) framed by a dim and unfamiliar abstract agricultural landscape in the background. As the subject is portrayed resiliently standing in her natural environment, the artist is possibly representing the state of the motherland.

“The Village” hangs on the adjacent wall. It is a work from Mansour's Ten Years in Mud series. Here, the process, material, and subject reference the first Intifada, a critical time in recent history during which Mansour co-founded New Visions, an artistic movement of cultural resistance that evaded the use of Israeli art materials and instead used natural locally found materials such as coffee, henna, mud and clay. The artist uses the earth itself to depict the land and its people rather than painting the landscape. The square forms of textured mud are marked with patterns similar to traditional Palestinian embroidery, and the surface of the painting is made to look like the decaying facades of buildings wearing out by time.