Saturday, February 17th, 11:00 - 12:30

Location: The Palestinian Museum

Language: Arabic

Join a tour with Rina Khatib, Marah Khalifa, and Ahmad Abu Zayyad of the Artistic Demonstration for Gaza, which includes three spaces mindfully designed to respond to this fateful moment. This is Not an Exhibition is hosted in the Main Exhibition Hall of the Palestinian Museum and includes some 300 artworks by more than 100 Palestinian Gazan artists. The second space in the Glass Gallery is The Disappeared, a solo exhibition by artist Tayseer Barakat. The third space, Women of Gaza, is a display in the Museum lobby of ethnographic objects including heritage thobes (dresses) and accessories which together tell the story of Gaza in all its details of creativity and material solidarity in the face of violent displacement.

Two walls facing each other, like the river and the sea, painted in indigo blue: the same colour of dye for which the village of Majdal was famous. Women would use the indigo plant to produce dye for their thobes as a marker of mourning periods.

Artworks were met with their share of destruction during the last war; looking at their artists and the fate of galleries and art institutions, such as Eltiqa Art Gallery and Shababek, reveals a wretched catastrophe. We are bearing witness to what the Palestinian fine arts movement has lost of martyrs and their artworks which were created through long years of creativity and innovation.