Away from the luxurious halls with distinctive lighting, an art exhibition began in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, depicting the tragedy of the Palestinians and documenting the Israeli genocide.

In this exhibition, Palestinian artists used clothes extracted from the rubble of destroyed homes to tell the story of the Gaza Strip, which has been witnessing more than 14 months of Israeli genocide. Most of these clothes are torn and painted with various drawings, and displayed on tin slabs and concrete stones, to bear witness to this inhuman disaster.

The multi-day exhibition, dubbed the “Breathing Clothes Exhibition” and was attended by Palestinians, including children who had lost siblings and mothers who had lost their children. The artists’ drawings on clothing exemplify the human tragedy resulting from the genocide, documenting painful scenes of children under the rubble, and mothers carrying their children during forced displacement under the weight of bloody shelling and deliberate starvation.

Among these painful testimonies was the shoes of Tala Abu Ajwa, who lost her life in an Israeli shelling of her neighborhood in Gaza City last September. Tala, 9, wore pink skates as she prepared to play with her friends, before her life turned into a memory under the rubble of the bombardment with only her shoes left. According to the curators, it shows that art can be a voice for the bereaved in Gaza and a tool to document the Israeli genocide and the suffering of entire generations.