"This Is Not an Exhibition Planned in Advance; the War Created It"

A one-of-a-kind exhibition is currently on display at the Shelter Gallery, located on Yehuda HaMaccabi Street in Jerusalem. This exhibition showcases works that document the reality altered by the war, depicting a quest for mental and physical shelter in times of distress, nostalgia for a destroyed home, as well as kindness, light, and great hope for better days.

The exhibition is presented at the Shelter Gallery under the management of Dr. Noa Leah Cohen and aims to enable artists to continue promoting their works during challenging and complex times, to cope with lockdowns and barriers, and to operate in a shared and protected space.

Curator Ira Krochmal from Rehovot was enlisted for the task, along with artistic producer Naomi Hanna Shtilman. Together they gathered works, some prepared especially for the exhibition and others created beforehand but gained different connotations due to the situation.

The gallery manager, Noa Leah Cohen, notes that in addition to the displayed works, the exhibition also includes works that did not materialize: a work by an artist who gave birth during the war, her husband was in the reserves and time was limited, oil and water works by an artist who, since Simchat Torah, paints only with charcoal in memory of the destruction and fires in the surrounding areas, optimistic poetry by an artist evacuated from Sderot after a direct hit to her house, and more.

The exhibition also features works that commemorate landscapes that once were and are no longer, including a unique work by Miriam Lifshitz, who created a performance in support of the captives that memorializes their names, called by women in the community and written in real time. This work is also on display.

'Untitled' - Bracha Cohen. Photo

'Untitled' - Ahava Weiss, Mixed Media. Charcoal on Bristol

'Postcard from the Gaza Envelope' - Talia Avrahami. Watercolors

'Untitled' - Hadassah Cohen. Plaster Casting

Rivky Gottlieb, 'Memories' Wire

The exhibition will be available until February 4th at the Shelter Gallery, on Yehuda HaMaccabi Street in Jerusalem.