Overview

This work documents the visit of a group of art students to the exhibition "History of Violence," which was curated by Hadas Maor at the Haifa Museum of Art. The museum visit takes a sharp turn when students come a cross a number of works by Mona Hatoum, a Lebanese artist of Palestinian origin. This encounter leads to a stormy political discussion among a number of different students, who represent a microcosm of Israeli society: a Muslim Arab, a Christian Arab, a Druze and a Jew. A museum visitor who happens to pass by bursts into the discussion, and attempts to impose her world view on the students and to aggressively discount all other views - ironically exemplifying the kind of violence alluded to in the exhibition's title.