Ono’s Jerusalem Campus Hosts “COLOR RED” Exhibition Documenting Life in the South During Wartime
Ono Academic College’s Jerusalem Campus has installed a new exhibition, entitled, “COLOR RED”. This phrase is the codename used to describe the situation whenever incoming rockets target Israeli cities. The installation is part of the effort of the campus to serve as a a platform for presenting important and topical art in these complex days.
Dr. Noam Hoffman, the Director of the Jerusalem Campus notes that the exhibition is not only a chilling documentation of the life experienced by the residents of Sderot, a city in the Israel’s South frequently targeted for over a decade by rocket attacks and invaded by Hamas terrorists on October 7th. It also exemplifies Ono Academic College’s multicultural philosophy which enables meetings between different populations and religions in the public space of the campus.
The “COLOR RED” exhibit was created by the ultra-Orthodox artist Hana Shanhav. It is comprised of a series of 32 images, with each image having a poem and a photo taken in the city of Sderot where the artist lived for many years she was forced to evacuate her home on October 7th. At that point, she and her large family of ten children moved to Beit El. The next day, a missile hit her home in Sderot and destroyed it. Since then, along with many thousands of others, Shenhav has been forced to live as a refugee, evacuated far from her home. The exhibition presents 20 images from the series, which give voice to the residents of Sderot who have been living, not just since October 7th, but for two decades, in a “routine” of war.
