When memory becomes resistance: How artists and speakers are bearing witness to the assault on Gaza
‘The Future Will Remember’ exhibit and ‘Speak Up for Gaza’ open mic at a Mumbai gallery remember lost lives in bricks and spoken word.
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Poems and plays, stories and songs, essays and articles – and names. At an open mic event on August 10-11 at Method Kala Ghoda, artists, speakers and others in Mumbai found comfort – and resistance – in the spoken word. The event was held marking 300 days of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after a Hamas attack on October 7.
“It was a place to express oneself. And show solidarity,” veteran stage actor Dolly Thakore said over the phone on Monday. “That is a very big thing.”
The gallery had posted stirring images of Thakore, draped in a white sari, a magnificent red bindi on her forehead, reading from a list of those killed in the war on Gaza since October. She was among several others who attended the open mic at Method that weekend.
For the past month, the gallery has had on display “The Future Will Remember”, an exhibit by American artist Alexis Rose, made entirely of bricks. The bricks, carved delicately with names and data, stand like gravestones in an open field, some empty, warily leaving space for information to come.
In an artist statement, Rose sets the scene for her work amid a genocide in which the attempts of entire communities to document the violations committed upon...
