Artists Respond to Trauma
Examining the “Long October 7th” through Artists’ Digital Diaries—an Ongoing Project
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A week after 7 October 2023, various visual-art initiatives began to awaken in a quest for self-expression. A torrent of images started to flood the network, their modes of expression and non-expression as varied as were the voices and identities. Some artists plunged into shock and silence, others found comfort in artmaking, and yet others turned their concern toward the Other through art or other media. Some responses were personal and spontaneous, while others answered calls from art associations and institutions. Ad hoc groups for and of abductees’ families organized, viewing visual language not only as a form of expression but also, and primarily, as a political instrument to influence policymakers and domestic and global public opinion.
Contributor Notes
YAEL GUILAT is an associate professor, Art Historian and Visual Culture researcher at Oranim College. Her main topics are Gender and Interculturalism, Memory, Bereavement and Memorialization, Arts and Crafts and Psychoanalysis-Theory and the Art. Guilat is an art curator in Israel as well as abroad. Email: yguilat@gmail.com