1:1 Center for Art and Politics presented the mobile Refugee Museum - five dioramas showing monumental historical scenes from the journey of the refugee sons of Africa to Israel, and pictures of their life here. The dioramas, miniature sculptural spectacles, demonstrate an endless queue to the Immigration Authority offices, a kindergarten/child storage room, a dream of a refugee prisoner in the “Holot” facility which is erased in a massive sandstorm, and the map of the journey from Africa to south Tel-Aviv, with its obstacles, prisoner camps, massacres, the desert and the dangers on the way. In memory of the dead and the survivors, on their way to Tel-Aviv.

The refugee museum is a mobile installation of advocacy, set as part of an activist move to increase awareness on the subject of the refugees in Israel and in the world, in a non-violent way that aims to offer the option of an alternative form of public conversation. Ranei Mazor designed and built the museum, on the basis of research he conducted on the subject of non-violent protest (Nobel Activism) in the course of graduate studies at the Holon Institute of Technology (MA in Integrated Design), under the guidance of Eitan Bartal.

The museum institution often represents stability, organization and the reception of ideas within a hegemonic culture. The Refugee Museum uses the museological practice in an independent and critical manner, with the purpose of taking a topic from the fringes of society and bringing it into the consensus to create a wide conversation. The museum is reclaimed from the exclusive hands of the state and used as a temporary tool of protest.

Ranei Mazor, creator of the museum, is an artist and consciousness designer, M.Des graduate in Integrated Design from the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT).

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Opening: 8.12.2018