7 highlights: Edinburgh Art Festival
With exhibitions exploring Palestinian culture, environmental consciousness and political activism, we’ve compiled our top art picks this festival season
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Sadao Hasegawa
Depicting hypermasculine forms, Hasegawa’s paintings blend eroticism with pan-Asian folklore and science fiction, imagining a universe where chiselled men encounter mythic creatures.
Custom Lane, until 30 August.
Eva Rothschild
The push and pull of power dynamics is at the centre of this Irish artist’s work and none more so than in The Void Presses The Wall where her urban sculptures are firmly part of the landscape.
Fruitmarket, until 11 October.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Sound performance Zifzafa, named for an Arabic word describing a wind that shakes everything in its path, centres on the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, where 30 planned wind turbines will flood the region with a relentless mechanical roar.
Leith Theatre, 29 August.
Jupiter Rising
The annual celebration in Bonnington House Steadings has been curated by Sgàire Wood and features Desert Kingsnake, Plantainchipps, Junglehussi and Holly O’Brien for a multi-artform knees up.
Jupiter Artland, 22 August.
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Palestinian Sound Archive
Join Mo’min Swaitat of Majazz Project and Palestinian Sound Archive for a collective listening session, exploring rare audio gleaned from across Palestine and the wider region.
Palestine Museum, 30 August.
Etchingroom 1
Ukrainian duo Kristina Yarosh and Anna Khodkova, who work under the name Etchingroom1, created a mural in 2023, which taps into a long lineage of political murals as an expression of collective struggles.
Edinburgh Printmakers, until 25 October.
Katie Paterson
Approaching last-chance-to-see territory for Paterson’s sculptural installation which is comprised of nearly 200 amulets, each one created with materials sourced from fragile ecosystems.
Collective, until 6 September.