Rimas [pan]creáticas árabefuturistas

Arabfuturist [Pan]creatic Rhymes is a transdisciplinary artistic research project that reimagines domesticity and territory in a postwar immigration context, inspired by Afrofuturism and hydro-feminism. It draws on the concept of the ecotone as connective tissue —a zone of friction and fertility between ecosystems— and links it to the role of enzymes, which, like ecotones, catalyze transformations: they break down rigid boundaries and enable new syntheses between bodies, languages, and spaces. The pancreas, as a producer of digestive enzymes, serves here as a metaphor for this active mediation.

Through a multidimensional rhyme between architecture, music, and experimental poetry, the project traces historical and political parallels between Beirut and Barcelona, two Mediterranean cities that once stood as peripheral zones of rival empires —the Ottoman and the Habsburg. It also forges a connection between contemporary Lebanon, shaped by the Palestinian struggle, and the historical memory of Catalonia, proposing an Arabfuturist vision that imagines futures of coexistence and geopolitical transformation beyond the walls of Israeli occupation.

This juxtaposition of body, language, food, space, and territory mobilizes the pillars of domesticity in an effort to reorganize memory and the transmission of knowledge within a postcolonial context.

Activity curated by Festival Sâlmon

With the participation of Rasheed Jalloul


Rasheed Jalloul

Rasheed Jalloul is a musician, architect, poet and artist. Born in Lebanon and based in Barcelona, his transdisciplinary practice explores, through the musicality of form and the architecture of sound, a vocabulary of inclusive atrophy that defines today's habitat. He earned a Master's degree in Advanced Architecture at UPC in 2018 and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Lebanese American University in 2015, after pursuing advanced painting studies in the latter's Fine Arts department. He is a self-taught oud player  and has volunteered in various meditation workshops both in south India and internationally from 2012 to the present.