Six photographs from an olive soap factory in Nablus, Palestine, in 1934, are superimposed with olive green and red plexi glass blocks. These bi-colour panes are shown as a pair, one of them always higher than the other one, connecting the floor of the factory with its ceiling, thereby showing the world of the workers at different elevations.

The industrial use of plexi glass that was commercialised in the late 1930s as a safer alternative to standard glass and the insight into the factory producing soaps forms a somewhat historical layering of production lines, thereby giving the artworks a contemporary appearance. The architecturally stacked towers of soap and the individual labour that goes into producing every single component of the final Nabulsi soaps is shown here.

This series reflects on the significance of olives for the Palestinian people. Here, Hazem Harb explores the relation between olive oil and blood, a land and its people. One drives the other, their veins almost intertwined and merged into one.