点评:Grazie mille Foundiazione Merz for allowing us a small, perfectly presented, but harrowing insight into the plight of the people, culture, and history, of Gaza.
The exhibition weaves the ancient with the new; stonework rescued from the rubble intermingled with recent work from Palestinian artists. The beauty, culture, artistry, history and stories of a life in Gaza captured, shared and treasured.
Having absorbed the multitude of exhibits from thousands of years ago in the Museo Egizio the previous day, this was a timely and current reminder of a modern-day sacking and destruction that is happening in front of our very consciences. The number of exhibits on show would easily fit into one case on one floor of the Museo Egizio. Sadly, these artefacts could be the only remains, other than the concrete laden generational bodies of thousands of Palestinians that we have watched being transitioned since October 2023, that I ever get to witness of an ancient people.
We spent longer at this exhibition than we did in Museo Egizio. This is no reflection on that establishment but a reflection on the proximity, emotion and heart wrenching honesty of this depiction of a modern-day atrocity. Egyptian mummification spanned a period of over 3,000 years, and archaeologists have uncovered in the region of 100,000 of those lost souls over the last century. The 21st century annihilation of the Palestinian people, over a period of 3 years, will in time be uncovered to show the scale of its operation.
Be on the right side of history, take a look at what we have done, and what is left, and pray to your God that we will be forgiven.
翻译:非常感谢梅尔兹基金会让我们得以略微了解加沙地区民众的处境、当地的文化与历史——虽然了解的程度有限,但这些信息却发人深省、令人动容。
此次展览将古老与现代融为一体:从废墟中抢救出来的石制品与巴勒斯坦艺术家们近期创作的作品交相辉映。加沙人民的生活之美、文化传统、艺术才华、历史渊源以及他们的种种故事,都在这里被记录、分享并珍存下来。前一天,我刚在埃及博物馆参观了数千年来留存下来的大量文物;而这次展览则及时且现实地提醒我们:一场破坏与劫掠正在我们眼皮底下发生。展出的这些文物数量之少,甚至可以轻松装进埃及博物馆某一层楼的一个展示柜里。遗憾的是,这些文物或许就是仅存的痕迹了。自2023年10月以来,我们目睹了成千上万的巴勒斯坦人背负着沉重负担、历经种种磨难。除此之外,我从未有机会亲眼见到一个古老民族的真实面貌。
我们在这个展览上停留的时间比在埃及博物馆还要长。这并非对后者有所贬低,而是因为这幅描绘现代暴行的画面实在太过贴近现实、充满情感且真诚得令人心碎。埃及的木乃伊制作技术则延续了三千多年之久。过去一个世纪里,考古学家们在该地区发现了约10万名这样的“迷失灵魂”。在21世纪,巴勒斯坦人民在3年期间所遭受的灭顶之灾,日后也必将被揭露,让人们知晓其破坏规模。
站在历史正确的一边吧,看看我们所做的一切以及留下的残迹,然后向你们的神明祈祷,求他宽恕我们。