The Charlotte Jewish News - February 2024 - Page 25
The Surprising Effect the Gaza War Had on the Tel Aviv Art Scene By Sarah Mann Life changed dramatically for millions in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and one of them was Inbar Haiman, a young student attending a Peace Festival in the Negev desert that weekend. Caught up in the attack, and then kidnapped and hauled off to Gaza on a motorbike, she was one of the more than two hundred hostages taken prisoner by Hamas that day. Amongst those campaign-
ing for her release was a group of artists who knew her very well. That’s because Inbar was a visual communications student in Haifa, with a passion for street art and graffiti, so much so that she’d already established a reputation and name for herself – Pink. “Free Pink” immediately became a rallying cry amongst street artists across Israel, particularly in Tel Aviv, where many graffiti artists picked up their
brushes and spray cans and headed out to the streets, determined to highlight her plight and keep her name alive in peoples’ minds. And if you take a street art tour in Tel Aviv these days, you’ll see plenty of works on the walls, all with the same subliminal message – bring them home now. The horrors of war impacted the walls of Tel Aviv: creators started filling them with large artworks dedicated to the fallen, the taken and the heroes of Oct.
7 and these challenging times. Bold, Colorful, and Sardonic – the Tel Aviv Street Art Scene For anyone that doesn’t know,
the Tel Aviv street art and graffiti scene is notoriously fast-changing — new pieces are regularly (Continued on page 26)
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