The artist who manages the exhibition hall of the Israeli Venice Biennale said that she would not open the exhibition hall until the hostage agreement and the Gaza ceasefire agreement were reached.

On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, people stood in front of the Israel Pavilion, which was closed at the Venice Biennale Contemporary Art Fair in Italy. Luca Bruno/Associated Press CNN & mdash; The representative of Israel at the Venice Biennale said that she would not open the Israel Pavilion until a hostage and ceasefire agreement was reached in Gaza.

In a statement shared on Instagram on Tuesday, the artist Ruth Patir said that the exhibition in Italian cities "will only be opened after the hostages are released and a ceasefire agreement is reached".

Patil said that she would raise her voice "Let the people standing with me shout together, cease fire now and bring back the imprisoned people.". We can't stand it anymore. "

In Demian Ding Yazhi's neon poem, the flashing letters spell out the hidden request "Liberation of Palestine". For the curator of Whitney Biennale, the last component of Diné artist's installation is unknown. Nora Gomez-Strauss/Whitney The hidden message of the artist of the Whitney Biennale, "Free Palestine", requires the audience to watch it for a long time.

Venice Biennale is an eight-month international art and cultural festival, which is held every other year to show some of the most outstanding ideas in the world in one place.

Every year, an artistic director is appointed to plan the central exhibition, which sets the tone for the whole festival in many ways.

With the growing calls for a truce and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, a petition signed by more than 23,000 people recently called for the exclusion of Israel from international cultural exhibitions.

After the militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza, killed at least 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 250 people, Israel launched a military offensive in Gaza on October 7.

According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks in the Gaza have killed at least 33,797 Palestinians and injured another 76,465. Human Rights Watch and Oxfam accused Israel of "indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks in violation of international law" and collective punishment of civilians.

Patil said on Tuesday that in recent weeks, she and Mira Lapidot and Tamar Galitt have become news, not art and an exhibition entitled "(M)otherland". "If you give me such an extraordinary stage, I want to make it valuable," patil said, adding that she "resolutely opposed" the cultural boycott, but chose to take action because she felt that there was "no right answer".

Italian soldiers patrol the Israeli national pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art fair in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Colleen Barry/AP