At the Art Biennale in Venice, Italy, which opens to the public this Saturday, the Israeli pavilion will remain closed for the time being. It was decided by the curators and the author of the exhibited works. According to the ANSA agency, they made the move out of solidarity with the hostages who were kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorist movement Hamas on October 7 last year and are still being held in the Gaza Strip.
Israel is one of the 88 countries celebrating the 60th anniversary Venice Biennale representation through its own national marquee. In it, each country, including the Czech Republic, has control over its exhibition, which may or may not coincide with the vision of the overall curator of the year and put the main exhibition him together. The event will begin for the public this Saturday and will last until November 24.
“Artists and curators of the Israel Pavilion will open an exhibition when an agreement is reached on a ceasefire and the release of the hosts,” read a sign on the door of the Israel Pavilion, located in the Giardini Gardens in Venice. Nearby, according to the AP group, several armed Italian soldiers are guarding security.
Israeli artist Ruth Patir said she was sad because for young artists like her, the biennale is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Nevertheless, she made this decision “out of solidarity with the families of those who are abducting and a large part of Israeli society that wants to change”.
According to the New York Times about the closing of the pavilion it wasn’t The Israeli government notified in advance. At the same time, she paid about half of the expenses. According to curators Tamar Margalit and Mira Lapidot, visitors can still see at least one short video that is part of the project through the windows of the modern pavilion. “The exhibition is ready and the pavilion is waiting to be opened. But art can wait, while women, children and people who are now under hell cannot wait,” quote published by the British Guardian newspaper.
“It is a very brave decision,” he praises the move of Adriano Pedrosa, the Brazilian goalkeeper of the entire main part of this year’s biennial. “And I think it’s also a very wise decision. In the current context, it would be very difficult to present any work,” said Pedrosa, who also took included the works of three Palestinian artists in the main exhibition.
One of them, Khaled Jarrar, who lives in New York, will not come in person because he did not get a visa. Another, Palestinian architect Dima Srouji, criticized the Israeli move. “Having a truce and releasing the enemies would allow the tabernacle of Israel to continue as before. But the rest of us are fighting against 75 years of occupation and apartheid. We are fighting for our liberation, not for a truce,” she said.
According to The Times of Israel she had Israeli demonstration in memory of Israeli and Palestinian women who died in Israel’s war against Hamas. The project aimed to support hostages in Gaza and their relatives. The conservatives and the author of the work believe in a two-state solution to the conflict, so that Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in peace.
Since February, thousands of pro-Palestinian activists, including photographer Nan Goldin and Jesse Darling, the transgender winner of Britain’s 2019 Turner Prize, have sought to ban Israel from this year’s exhibition. The call was put up by a group that calls itself the Alliance for Art, Not Genocide. She is circulating a petition calling for a ban on Israel’s participation, and promises more protests on the ground. The Israelis decide to close their own tabernacle criticism on Instagram as an “empty, fair move”.
Activists accuse Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. They argue that the Italian government banned South Africa from participating in the Biennale between 1950 and 1968 because of the apartheid regime at the time in that African country. But Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano supported the Israelis. “The Israelis not only have the right, but even the duty to testify at a time when they are being targeted by such ruthless terrorists,” he said.
Organizers similarly rejected calls to close the Iranian pavilion. Russia did not participate this year by its own decision.
The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip responds to the terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7 last year, when Palestinian terrorists murdered more than 1,200 people and kidnapped 250 others. As part of the revenge campaign in the Gaza Strip, more than 33,000 people have died, according to the authorities controlled by Hamas. The number cannot be independently verified.
More than 80 percent of the more than 2.3 million people living in Gaza have fled the military campaign, and NGOs have been warning for weeks about a humanitarian disaster.
The tragic event marked other cultural events as well. Critical voices against Israel were heard when the film Oscars and music Grammys were awarded or at the Berlinale festival.
In February, the organizers of the international Eurovision Song Contest rejected an Israeli contestant’s song because they thought it was too political, which is against the rules. According to the media, Israel later agreed to edit the lyrics of the song.
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