Tramps Gallery Show in London Pairs Al Jazeera Gaza Footage with Rare Lucio Fontana Sculpture

Key facts

• "An Exhibition as Record" is on view at Tramps gallery in London until 12 December
• The show is non-selling and comprises four elements, according to gallery founder Parinaz Mogadassi
• It opened on the eve of Frieze week, which Mogadassi calls the moment the art audience is largest and most captive
• Featured video shows Al Jazeera footage of a mock press conference by children outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on 7 November 2023
• About 20 children stood in the hospital grounds, with a boy aged around ten acting as spokesperson and asking for protection
• Lucio Fontana's 1941 sculpture Nudo femminile sdraiato is shown in front of a 2023 photograph by Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem printed on a silver mirror
• Salem's image shows Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar cradling her dead five-year-old niece, Saly
• The final room holds Federico Vespignani's Short-Term, But Long-Term (2025), 20 images from dating apps showing profiles of Israeli soldiers serving in Gaza with faces redacted; over 300 such profile pictures were initially published by Vespignani last year
• Hamas's attack on 7 October 2023 killed more than 1,200 Israelis and more than 250 people were taken hostage
• Nearly 73,000 Palestinians are estimated to have been killed in Gaza, per data from the World Health Organization with the Palestinian Ministry of Health