Exhibition
Don’t Stop Drawing: Visual Diaries of Solidarity with Gaza
Mazen Kerbaj x Jana Traboulsi
Don’t Stop Drawing - Visual Diaries of Solidarity with Gaza ran at P21 Gallery in London from March 19 to April 2, 2024
Approximately 500 visitors saw the exhibition over the course of two weeks.
Don't Stop Drawing - Visual diaries of solidarity with Gaza is a linear timeline-based exhibition of works by two Lebanese artists and long-time friends: Mazen Kerbaj, living in Berlin, and Jana Traboulsi, living in Beirut. As a response to the ongoing devastating war on Gaza, the two artists started drawing and posting on their Instagram pages. Their works expose Israel's injustice towards Palestinians through bold and anchoring imagery. The artists draw as a coping mechanism, as their only way to remain sane amid such humanitarian catastrophe. The works have been widely shared on social media, allowing thousands of people worldwide to express their own solidarity and to identify with the artists’ feelings and positions. Although the artists live in different cities, their hearts are in sync; their works carry a hidden dialogue between two people who lived the wars in Lebanon and today witness the daily unbearable violence towards Palestinians. The drawings are the artists' way of demanding equality, peace and justice for Palestine and to counter their helplessness towards the inhumanity that this genocide has exposed.
Citizen Scientists (local researchers) from Ramallah, Beirut and London who work with IGP have been asked to respond to this work with arts interventions of their own. Their responses will also be featured in the exhibition.
