Location:
Joods Historisch Museum Nieuwe Amstelstraat 1, AMSTERDAM
Date:
December 19th 2019 - January 19th 2020
Architectural model, exhibition, performance and meeting January 16th, 14.00 hrs.
Host:
Prof. Dr. Emile Schrijver
Architectural model:
Architectural model based on a mass grave for the slaughtered Jew of Baghdad i.e, 'Farhud' (1st and 2nd of June 1941). Al Zwara Cinema, Baghdad - 2019
Architectural model based on Meir Tweig Synagogue of Hacham (Chief Rabbi) Sassoon Kadoori, who was the president of the Babylonian Jewish community in Baghdad, Iraq - 2019
Bronze, 10 ShOFaROT, 70x30x33cm
Exhibition:
In 'On Friendship/(Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT: Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam' Sassoon Semah placed two identical objects of 'The City of Shelter/Refuge' at two different locations. One at the Jewish Historical Museum under direction of his friend Emile Schrijver (Public Space) and the other in Redstone Natuursteen & Projecten in the office of his friend Yasin Kalac (Private Space) The shape of the objects is based on a childhood memory: the public entrance to a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv. The public space and the private space are connected to one another by "an invisible black square, an invisible territory, a frame of mind, a spatial place, a void, to remind us of the idea of 'The City of Shelter'/Refuge'.
Performance:
Joseph Sassoon Semah, Baruch Abraham, Mudar Adas, Masja Austen, Peter Baren, Bülent Evren, Ari Hartog, Uzi Heymann, Arantxa Marchant, Anastasia Kozolova, Emile Schrijver, Jom Semah, Yvonne Strang.
Meeting:
Emile Schrijver Managing (director Jewish Cultural Quarter), Arie Hartog (director Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen), and artist Joseph Sassoon Semah about the need for diversity in Judaism. A meeting about the necessary reorientation of heritage in museums.
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