This catalogue from Yoko Ono’s exhibition in 1999-2000 at the Umm El-Fahem Art Gallery in Israel, a space created to promote the work of Arab-Israeli artists. The exhibition was made up of paintings, drawings, and installation works, including a “wish tree for peace” planted in the gallery courtyard, accompanied by a bronze plaque inviting visitors to whisper their wishes to the tree’s bark. In his essay on the exhibition, curator Shlomit Shakked remarks, “Open Windowoffers a passage from one situation to another—the known and the unknown. The work pushes boundaries of aesthetic and social norms, opening them to questioning, to dialogue.”
xxx Text in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. Reads from right to left