Earlier this month at the Oasis Gallery, a powerful evening unfolded – full of art, emotion and meaningful presence. The exhibition “Heartache | מועקה وجع” gave space to a wide range of creative voices. From pain and uncertainty emerged a shared language of trust, gentleness and hope.
Curator Dyana Shaloufi Rizek led the event, bringing together eight artists whose works reflected the complexity and contradictions of the current reality
Curator Dyana Shaloufi Rizek
The eight Palestinian and Jewish artists whose work is currently exhibited in the Oasis Art Gallery express their anger and pain through painting and sculpture.
Artist explaining her work
Abed Abdi, a well-known visual artist who promotes and references Palestinian art in his work is represented, as is AdiYekutieli, a Jewish Israeli artist who uses his art for collaboration and conflict resolution.
Ashraf Fawakhry, a Palestinian citizen of Israel uses the donkey as an ironic, iconic symbol of the patience, endurance and consistency of the Palestinian citizen living in steadfastness in his occupied land since 1948.
Linda Taha’s portraits remind us of the burden Palestinian women bear.
Ola Zareini’s work deals with themes of identity, struggle and suffering.
Shulamit Yashar uses painting, drawing and digital media to express the connections between internal and external landscapes,
Tal Gaash, has an idiosyncratic style that belies an attempt to cope with external reality within a personal world;
Zohdy Qadry’s work uses abstract geometric shapes to explore order and disorder.
The result is an exhibit that is as inspiring as it is beautiful. It is an exhibition that carries with it the hope that as the war draws to a close, we will be able to adopt the cooperation and mutual understanding we need for healing, which will come about, in part, through art.
