For the past seven decades, the Palestinian condition of displacement and exile has been ongoing, altering how refugees feel about the nature of their built environment. Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti refer to this state of a airs as “permanent temporariness,” which is also the title of their most recent exhibition at NYU Abu Dhabi.

The mixed media artist and practitioner who is also a faculty member at the university is having a solo show at the NYUAD project space. It encourages introspection and thwarts expectations.