P21 Gallery - Gaza: Messages & Images
Gaza: Messages & Images
Exhibition Dates: 10th - 25th January 2024
Exhibition Opening Night: 9th January 2024 | 19:00 - 21:00
In collaboration with Az Theatre and associated artists, P21 Gallery is presenting a short season of work centred around an installation of the MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW #3 FILM. This will be an open space of inspiration, reflection and cultural activism.
This exhibition features the work of Seth Hopewell with 5 prints expressing a graphic response to the genocidal attack on Gaza.
Since the escalation of the genocide in early October 2023, Hossam Madhoun, theatre-maker, co-director of Theatre for Everybody in Gaza, has sent accounts of his daily life and struggles. The film shows a reading by artists and others at P21 in early December.
“The camera is unerringly still as reader after reader come into frame conveying their own special voicing of Hossam’s words. The diversity of the readers is extraordinary; the shared sensibility is characteristically consistent.”
The MESSAGES tell the story of forced evacuation and displacement, the 'complete siege', the bombing, the efforts to help neighbours and other displaced people, the shortages, the queues and the confrontation with human suffering and death.
The readings of Hossam’s words together with other testimonies have offered the space and opportunity to reflect on the horrifying events in Palestine and to refine solidarity with Palestinians and sharpen activism.
GAZA: MESSAGES & IMAGES will present, in addition to Seth Hopewell’s work, art,
graphic artefacts and images of the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom and justice also a series of events and gatherings with readings, poetry, music and film.
"Cry, baby, cry my son, no shame, cry as much as you want, cry as much as you were afraid, cry until your cries reach the sky or reach a moving heart somewhere in this mad world!”
Curated by Jonathan Chadwick, Faseeha Khalid, Ruth Lass, Maysoon Pachachi, Maryam Safe and Yahya Zaloom