Ola Moussa - Gaza
It was 11:00 am on the first Friday of August 2014, when the scene in the city of Rafah turned from relative calm to the sound of rockets and the cries of people and children.
That was one of the chapters of the Israeli aggression on Gaza that left painful humanitarian stories, the most tragic of which were the seven dead children who did not find a place in the refrigerators of the dead, and put their bodies in refrigerators for refreshments and ice cream.
Art .. Archive of the massacre
The 27-year-old artist Duaa Keshta is still shocked by the incident she saw in front of her eyes in her city, which was subjected to the "Black Friday" massacre, but four years after the massacre, she decided to present a work that embodies the massacre. In a place they love, it is ice cream parlors.
Keshta embodied a work of art through sculptures that at first glance appear to be ice-cream, but artistic sculptures that used waxy and delicious utensils of different materials and colors, to produce different forms of ice cream of various kinds.
| Ice-cream figures bearing the shapes of the seven children to commemorate them and remind them of their suffering (island) |
Keshta started producing the project after receiving a grant from the Mohsen Al Qattan Cultural and Educational Foundation last August. It focused on a piece of art that talks about a refrigerator with a "ice cream" banner with seven children martyrs and how they like this refrigerator. To watch.
"The massacre of the traumatic events for me, an ice-cream refrigerator instead of accepting it to buy what's inside it, they go in," she says.
"In August of this year and during the anniversary of the fourth Israeli aggression on Gaza, I decided to recount the event in an artistic way, because the media did not pay attention to this shocking scene. The work was a variety of ice-cream sculptures that embody children's pictures on every piece."
| This artwork combines the aesthetics of ice cream with the horror of the massacre (Al Jazeera) |
Sleep resistance
The artistic director of the "Professional Window of Contemporary Art" Sherif Sarhan believes that the artistic work of Shakta was able to reach the beauty of ice cream as a form that all people love and the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation against children.
"This artwork takes the viewer to the depth of the scene," says Sarhan. "Kshta succeeded in linking the fragile material used in the work and the human dimension in the case, the children with the fragile bodies, and this is an innovative sleep resistance that affects the viewers."
The Israeli occupation left more than 140 martyrs and thousands wounded, according to the Palestinian Information Center, during the massacre of Rafah, which was called the "Black Friday" massacre.
The seven children killed were: Maria Abu Jazar (1 year), her brother Firas Abu Jazar (three years), Mustapha al-Ghoul (one month), his sister Malik al-Ghoul (six years) Less than a month) and Khaled Zo'rob (eight years).