This exhibition was designed to confront misinformation about the Palestinian cause and provide information and sources related to the history of Palestine and its people and the colonial context that has shaped its reality today. The focus is on the reality and history of Gaza, highlighting the humanitarian discourse and cultural expressions of this small area.
The successive horrors experienced by the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip have led to the neglect of daily life, the rich heritage, and the forms of arts, sciences, and creativity developed by its people. Gaza has been reduced in the general imagination only to a series of massacres that have taken place over the past two decades alone: only those which have dominated the headlines in news bulletins and political speeches. The exhibition does not only address the war on Gaza; rather, it declares that Gaza's life is longer than all the colonialisms that have passed through it and that its people, streets, and sea have always been there, before and after the Israeli occupation, before and after the siege, and before and after the massacres.
The exhibition covers 100 years of Gaza's history. It stands as one of the tools to confront the abhorrent propaganda war and smears, providing the global audience with as many sources as possible to help them see the real Gaza and place it in a global context. It seeks to contend with its current situation as a place suffering from a colonial experience exacerbated by occupation, repeated wars, and unprecedented siege.