A new exhibit at the Museum on the Seam, entitled HeartQuake, is set to open Friday July 18 featuring artists from Israel, Poland, Germany, Belgium and elsewhere around the world who explore the themes of anxiety and trauma in local and universal contexts. Artists' works include multi-media pieces that focus on the impact of violence, the nuclear threat, the Holocaust and other social traumas.
The museum, self-described as a "socio-political contemporary art museum" is located in Jerusalem next to the spot where the Mandelbaum Gate once stood, on the former border that once divided Jerusalem between Israel and Jordan. According to the museum's mission statement, it "presents changing exhibitions that deal with the seam line of our national, ethnic and economic relations with the goal of raising controversial social issues for public discussions."