The Jad Hanna kibbutz - named after Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew martyred trying to save her people from the death camps - was set up in 1950, in the border territories occupied during the war of liberation. The dedication of its members made it perhaps the best known kibbutz in Israel.
The Hungarian artist Gergely László has relatives at the kibbutz - founding members, in fact - and he has visited them several times. Realising that first-hand recollections of the history of the co-operative would soon no longer be possible, László collected photographs from the council of the kibbutz as well as correspondence, newspapers and other documents. He made prints of these and arranged them purposefully, though without any written explanation, in eight glass cases for the exhibition.
Gergely László: The Jad Hanna Project is open until October 24.
Author: Éva Kelemen
