Still Life Photo Exhibit Destroyed by Hamas Is Restored—Mostly
The long stem of a wilted flower in a tall glass bottle, a bowl of artichokes covered with a folded napkin, an old encyclopedia of plant life bookmarked with forgotten, curling strips of paper. These were some of the Israeli photographer Osnat Ben Dov’s still-life images that hung on the walls of Kibbutz Be’eri’s art gallery, torched by terrorists on October 7. Burning the gallery and the art that was in it was a small, gratuitous gesture of cruelty among the unfathomable atrocities that happened that day. The concept of mutability is rooted in the still-life tradition that the Dutch...
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