Group Portrait
Opening: 20th March 2014
The Musrara Collection project is an alternative visual archive of Musrara neighborhood. It aims to document the unique diversity, history and the culture of the neighborhood. The project focuses on the period following the establishment of the state - days of massive immigration of newcomers, mainly from North Africa, into the neighborhood, until the70's, with the eruption of social protest, led by the "Black Panthers" movement.
In our process we collect personal stories, testimonies, recordings and photographs, alongside official documents of the period. This confrontation of narratives provides a vibrant portrait of the neighborhood: customs, memories of long journeys, the pains of settling in a new ground, development and maturity in the shade of the political situation and social hardships. The archive does not suffice in collecting and presenting materials, but insists on approaching the archive with an artistic adaptation.
Curator: Avi Dabach | Producer: Keren Rosenberg
