Guernica-inspired art installation against Gaza Genocide at Nijmegen University

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Students at Radboud University have set up an amazing art installation, based on Picasso’s painting Guernica. The installation invites participants to change their perspective on the genocide in Gaza and our complicity as a university that refuses to cut its ties with Israeli academic institutions. Inside the installation, the floor is littered by ripped-up books and concrete gravel. There is a lamp that resembles the light bulb in Picasso’s painting. On one side of the installation, participants can see tapestries inspired by Guernica (which include fragments of a keffiyeh). On the other side there is a display of posters from Nijmegen’s rich activist past (many of which from the 1980s). They illustrate that in our city, the suppression of Palestinians and the Israeli apartheid state have always been protested. (Incidentally: this is actually a guerrilla action by the students. Security etc. were angry again, of course, but for now, it’s allowed to stay for a day, it seems.)

Mathijs van de Sande

(Change perspective is an official Radboud slogan.)
Geleend van Ties van den Bogaard van Twitter. Die schreef erbij: “Studenten hebben deze tunnel opgezet op de Radboud Universiteit om studenten te confronteren met de situatie in Gaza Terwijl onze universiteit spreekt over ‘banden met zowel Israëlische als Palestijnse instituten’ staat er in Gaza geen één universiteit meer overeind.”