"Beer in memory of them"- a moving exhibition:

• Published date: 14 March 2024
• Author: WALLA!
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Everyone who was murdered or fell left behind a family, dreams and ambitions that they will no longer fulfill, a life story that deserves to be told so that his life that was taken from him at once was not in vain

At the beginning of the academic school year, the students in the visual communication track, engineers at Shankar, received an exercise: to find a way to commemorate the murdered and the fallen, and above all to give each student the space to express himself personally, through his creativity and inner angle, and thus the "beer in their memory" project was born, within the framework of which the students designed the label The beer bottle in memory of the fallen and murdered, when each student focused on another fallen or murdered. The choice of beer as the basis for the project is symbolic, although beer is identified with the entertainment and night culture, but is also linked with "raising a glass" to life or memory.

Kafir Meman, senior lecturer at the Shenkar Engineers and curator of the exhibition: "In order to design a label that most accurately defines that person who falls or is murdered, the students went through a shocking and layered creative journey, an in-depth study of each person who was murdered or fallen, identifying unique characteristics in their character and observing them as a whole world. The translation of A lively human figure into a graphic symbol built from text and shape is a complex task that requires summarizing an entire world while preserving the spirit and essence of man.

The discussions and exposure in class to the students' deliberations show the depth and sensitivity with which they approached this task." After the beer bottle labels were printed and stuck on the bottles, the need arose to set up the exhibition and expose the works to the general public, as the exhibition is an important and essential step in continuing the process of commemoration and collective memory.

The exhibition is presented at Shankar Handesaiim, exhibition space 115, open for free from 12.03.24 to 22.03.24.

Among the fallen immortalized on labels:

Shani Lok, the 22-year-old young woman whose story of her abduction to Gaza captured the world's headlines after a shocking video of the October Swearing was released in which Shani is seen being brutally led, unconscious and injured, on a Hamas van in Gaza and instantly became one of the symbols of the October Swearing, was commemorated on the capital of "Shan " by student Gaia Flexin.

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