This could be an interesting exhibition! However, from the article below I get the impression this is a pro Palestine (PLO/PNA) political statement, perhaps worse with antisemitic undertones!
"The project is a collaboration between Fondazione Merz, Turin’s Museo Egizio, and Geneva’s Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (MAH), with the support of the State of Palestine. It brings together around eighty archaeological artifacts dating from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period, placing them in dialogue with works by seven contemporary Palestinian and international artists. Together, the institutions frame the exhibition as both a scholarly undertaking and a public reflection on memory, identity, and responsibility. ...
For years, the name Gaza has been associated almost exclusively with bombardment, siege, hunger, and ruin [???]. The Turin exhibition seeks to recover a much longer, nuanced history. ..."
"... The project brings together a selection of over eighty archaeological finds from the MAH – Musée d’art et d’histoire of Geneva on behalf of the State of Palestine and the Egyptian Museum of Turin – dating from the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period – and works by contemporary Palestinian and international artists Samaa Emad, Mirna Bamieh, Khalil Rabah, Vivien Sansour, Wael Shawky, Dima Srouji and Akram Zaatari. ..."
GAZA, the future has an ancient heart (original news release)
An iron age statuette of a woman with a tambourine, from between 800 and 601 BC, discovered in Gaza. (Source)
The exhibition in Turin includes ancient artefacts found in Gaza and new work from artists across the Levant.
Head with pointed cap, from approximately the 5th century BCE, discovered in Gaza.
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