Yalla Tnam (يالله تنام) a ritual performance, a composed echo of grief, protest and survival. A multidisciplinary performance work containing song, loop machine, movement and installation, Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich // Krüger invite the viewer to become a witness in this eulogy for the future.

Interweaving Fairuz’s Yalla Tnam with Syrian grief rituals from the Syrian Revolution, Mallah’s singing is a hypnotic expression of care and pain as Lillich // Krüger moves through a series of laden gestures. Aesthetically mythological, the pair offer the scene as a ceremony of grief to examine their differing but conflicting relationships, our heritage, the diversity of their migration experiences and the complexities of our relationship to our new home, the Netherlands.

With original material stemming from their 2025 work pulling blood from stone, the piece finishes with Lillich // Krüger answering Mallah’s song with her monologue the terror and the horror. Written in response to the United States’ current aggression on Iran, the monologue claims the discomfort of privilege while critiquing the role of the artist in contemporary culture.