This work is part of a new project.

-I have to do something-

As a human being, I want to do something. As an artist, this is what I do.

Out of a deep sense of powerlessness and concern, I set out to create something tangible. I ordered traditional soap bars from Nablus, in the West Bank—objects shaped by hand, carrying with them a long history of craft and survival. Using these bars, I made five molds, each one precisely capturing their size and structure, as if preserving their form against disappearance. With two of these molds, I traveled to Arita in Japan, a city renowned for its porcelain tradition. There, I cast 239 fragile porcelain soap bars. What was once soft and perishable became hard, yet brittle transformed into another state of vulnerability. Stacking the blocks, I built a tower that could collapse at any moment—an echo of the precarious existence in Gaza and the West Bank. At the same time, it is an act of construction: each block contributes to a larger whole, forming a community, a monument.

A tower in Arita porcelain, cast from the form of Palestinian Nablus soap, embodies a fragile act of remembrance and solidarity with Gaza.

A wall for Palestine. A flag every day. Exhibition protest at Arti et Amicitiae from January 5 to February 12.

a wall for Palestine, a flag every day, Arti Amsterdam

I have to do something - by Anne Verhoijsen - Arti Amsterdam


This multiple gathers the Palestinian flags I have been drawing and painting over the past months — small acts of attention, held together on paper.
The cover remains uncoloured, an unfinished gesture, inviting your hand to complete the image.
It is one of the works born from the feeling that I must do something.

Price: €35

Proceeds will be donated in support of humanitarian aid for Palestine.

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