WBC - Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem: Red Lounge

WBC Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem

Red Lounge in the WBC Jerusalem hosts an exhibition of the Zochrot Art Gallery

TUESDAY, 24th of March 2009 at 7 pm

Opening of the Exhibition

Photography: Tzachi Ostrovsky, Text: Haim Hanegbi, Curator: Norma Musih (Zochrot)

Palestinian Houses in West Jerusalem:
Stories & Photographs

Photography: Tzachi Ostrovsky, Text: Haim Hanegbi, Curator: Norma Musih (Zochrot)

(The exhibition will be open until 16.4.2009)

About the exhibition:
Photographer Tzach Ostrovsky and Journalist Haim Hanegbi portray eight Palestinian families and their former houses in West Jerusalem, which they had to leave behind during the War in 1948. The exhibition attempts with artistic photographs and rich textual documents to examine the space that is familiar to us and to discover it anew as a space that also tells the story of the other, the Palestinian story of the Nakba. This is understood not only as a historical, but also an ongoing event, that constitutes the personal and political relationship between Jews and Palestinians.

Photos and Stories in English
Photos and Stories in Hebrew

During the work on the exhibition, also encounters between Palestinian refugees and Israelis, who live on their land where organized.
Different and sometimes contradictory narratives of 1948 were shared.
In this sense, the exhibition is also an attempt to create a space, that would enable the needs of both sides to meet.

About Zochrot
by Norma Musieh, Curator of the Zochrot Art Gallery Tel Aviv:

“Zochrot” is an NGO whose goal is to introduce the Palestinian Nakba to the Israeli-Jewish public, to express the Nakba in Hebrew, to enable a place for the Nakba in the language and in the environment. This is in order to promote an alternative memory to the hegemonic Zionist memory. The Nakba is the disaster of the Palestinian people (…) But the Nakba (…)is also our story, the story of the Jews who live in Israel (…)

www.zochrot.org

Zochrot has an unusual name, which in Hebrew means “remembering” in the feminine form. We are often asked why Zochrot and not the masculine, Zochrim. The masculine form of remembering (…) is violent and nationalistic. Zochrot aims to promote another form of remembering, an alternative form that will enable the expression of other memories that are often kept silent. In addition, Zochrot makes an effort to create a space for the memory of [palestinian] women. The name “Zochrot” insinuates to all of these (…)

Learning the Nakba is an important step for Jews living in Israel. It often reflects a genuine interest to know and understand. But learning is not enough. The Nakba is not the story of another people that took place somewhere else — it is a story that we, as Israeli Jews, are responsible for. Learning, without taking responsibility, is to me not enough (…)

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^{TUESDAY, 24th of March 2009 at 7 pm

Opening of the Exhibition and Discussion

Palestinian Houses in West Jerusalem: Stories & Photographs

Photography: Tzachi Ostrovsky, Text: Haim Hanegbi, Curator: Norma Musih
(Zochrot)

(The exhibition will be open until 16.4.2009)}

Red Lounge in the Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem

22, Ein Rogel St, J'lem ( Abu Tor )