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Exhibition pairs classic artworks with news photos depicting Gaza’s destruction
The exhibition “Look Without Getting Used to It: Gaza” brings classic artworks together in collages with news photographs documenting destruction, loss, injuries and despair in Gaza. The exhibition, prepared without artificial intelligence, is planned to be taken abroad.
"Look Without Getting Used to It: Gaza" brings the traces of destruction, loss, injuries and despair in Gaza together with classic artworks in the same visual narrative.
The collages feature Edvard Munch's "The Scream" and Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night." Depictions of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus, as well as Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam" fresco in the Sistine Chapel, were also paired with news photographs from Gaza.
A call to look again at photographs from Gaza
Serdar Karagöz, chair of the board and director general of AA, said the project aims to raise awareness of photographs from Gaza. Noting that exposure to a large number of distressing images can lead to desensitization over time, Karagöz described the project, which brings news photographs together with artworks, as an original and powerful idea.
Karagöz said using classic art alongside photographs from Gaza could give the exhibition an international dimension. He said the exhibition is planned to travel abroad and described bringing the agency's journalistic expertise together with art as part of its sense of responsibility.
Emphasizing that artificial intelligence was not used in preparing the exhibition, Karagöz said that although AI makes many tasks easier, it cannot replace a real journalist because it does not possess a sense of responsibility.
Tens of thousands of photographs and paintings reviewed
Nisanur Koç, a reporter at the Visual Archive News Directorate, said she aimed to make news photographs more memorable while preparing the collages. Noting that people look at artworks for extended periods, Koç said she used this method so that viewers would not simply glance at news photographs and move on, but would recall the images again.
Koç said she combined news photographs taken in Gaza with classic artworks. She said preparing the collages took approximately two to three months and noted that she reviewed tens of thousands of photographs and paintings during the process.
The pairings were created on the basis of similarity in some collages and contrast in others. One depiction of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus was placed beside a photograph of a child in Gaza struggling to survive because of malnutrition. Some landscape paintings were also paired with images of smoke and destruction in the region.
Koç said the images from Gaza reflect "genocide and oppression" and expressed hope that the exhibition would encourage people to look at these photographs again without becoming accustomed to them.
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