Exhibition Dates
23rd - 24th November, 11am-5pm
29th November - 1st December, 11am-5pm
Venue
14 Wharf Rd, London, N1 7RW
Installed at 14 Wharf Rd over two weekends, works by contributing artists will be on display to the public. Over 300 artworks have been donated, spanning the disciplines of art, architecture, engineering, and literature.
Special Contributions from
Forensic Architecture
Gaza Remains the Story - The Palestinian Museum
Majazz Project / Palestinian Sound Archive
The Mosaic Rooms
In parallel to the works on show downstairs “a system which starts at the heart” features a programme of works and resources to contextualise the historical and contemporary situation in Palestine. On Sunday 1st of December there will be a public programme including panel discussions, poetry readings, performance and film screenings. Please see our programme page for more details. The public programme co-curated by Rahila Haque & Nabila Abdel Nabi.
Forensic Architecture’s significant investigative work presents evidence of the widespread destruction of Gaza’s civilian and health infrastructure through the interactive platforms A Cartography of Genocide: Israel’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023 and Siege on Al-Shifa Hospital, and a map of hospitals in Gaza that were forced out of service by 30 August 2024. The video ‘When it Stopped Being a War’: The Situated Testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah reconstructs the devastating explosion that took place in the courtyard of al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on 17 October 2023. Dr Abu-Sittah had arrived in Gaza on 9 October 2023 to volunteer with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He remained in Gaza for 43 days, working at al-Ahli, al-Shifa, al-Awda hospitals.
The Palestinian Museum, Gaza Remains the Story
The Palestinian Museum, through their Gaza Remains the Story exhibition toolkit, shares the context of the Palestinian experience, centring the land, places, and people of Gaza. “a system which starts at the heart” includes a selection from this unique project, which is available to anyone to print and make a version of the exhibition around the world. The act of displaying this material refuses the erasure of Palestine’s history and culture.
The Palestinian Sound Archive, Majazz Project
A selection of music artwork and tapes from the Palestinian Sound Archive is accompanied by a selection of music representing the archive’s sonic journeys through Palestine.
A specially curated reading area has been generously contributed by The Mosaic Rooms, including recent books on Palestinian art, culture and politics, and literary works.