Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz launched a line of clothes gadgets to generate funds for the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate. (all pictures by and courtesy Studio Breitz)
Berlin-based South African artist Candice Breitz has created a clothes marketing campaign to boost funds for Gazan journalists and media employees. All income are being donated to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) — a non-governmental skilled group representing roughly four-fifths of Palestine’s media employees. In Might, the PSJ was awarded the annual UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, the one journalistic freedom award given by the United Nations.
Since Hamas’s October 7 assaults final yr, the Israeli army’s bombardment of Gaza has killed upwards of 134 Palestinian journalists and media employees, in line with the Committee to Defend Journalists. Breitz’s marketing campaign, which launched final week, options black t-shirts, sweatshirts, and different gadgets bearing a design with blocked textual content that reads, “Never Again Means Never Again” in a palette of blue and white, conventional colours in Judaism, and pink and inexperienced, colours within the Palestinian flag.
The artist, who’s Jewish, initially shared the design on Instagram for Holocaust Remembrance Day in January. Every merchandise is called after a outstanding Jewish determine like thinker Nancy Fraser, poet Tomer Dotan Dreyfus, and filmmaker Nan Goldin, who was arrested together with some 200 activists throughout a sit-in for Palestine outdoors the New York Inventory Change final month.
Along with t-shirts and sweatshirts, the artist additionally created a tote bag that’s named after Israeli journalist and movie director Yuval Abraham.
Over the previous yr, Breitz has been vocal about her condemnation of the German authorities’s assist of Israel’s assaults on Gaza, which has strained her relationship with cultural establishments throughout the nation. Final November, the Saarland Museum confronted backlash when it axed a presentation of Breitz’s 13-channel video set up TLDR in response to on-line feedback the artist had made decrying Israeli violence in Gaza. The museum mentioned in a press release to the Guardian that it’ll not “offer artists a podium who don’t recognise Hamas’s terror as a breach of civilisation,” nor work with artists who “consciously or unconsciously suspend the clear distinction between legitimate and illegitimate action.”
4 months after the cancellation, the museum’s director resigned from her publish.
“It is crucial that we find ways to express our support for journalism on the ground, as it is crucial that we continue to receive information from and about those who are most directly and grotesquely impacted by the ongoing and widespread humanitarian catastrophe in the region,” Breitz mentioned in an October 30 Instagram publish in regards to the new marketing campaign. She added that supporters may contribute by ordering present playing cards for family members prematurely of the vacation season.