A one night event in the Notre Dame Center, 17:00-23:00
For one night, artworks are displayed in two epicenters at the Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center.

 Artists: Eitan Ben-Moshe, Yasmin Davis, Ori Drumer, Guy Dubious, Tahel Frosh, Dor Guez, Hadassa Goldvicht, Nir Harel, Tamar Hirschfeld, Shai Ignatz, Oz Malul, Yossi Mar Chaim, Lior Pinsky, Ran Slavin , Josef Sprinzak, Ofer Tisser, Tom Tlalim, Umm Culture (Limor Max, Sharon Ken-Dor, Shaked Shamir, Zaudito Yosef, Reut Sandrosi), Maya Yadid, Merhav Yeshoron, ⅓ Yomgagatzi

Room 325
Hotel rooms are the fixed backdrop for perpetually changing scenes; while guests come and go, the rooms always return to their original state, ready to start over with the next guest. Room 325 at the Notre Dame Guesthouse hosts performances and art objects for one night. The visitors are invited to spend the evening in room 325, where the scene changes every 30 minutes.

Iconophilia
The expansive terrace that stretches on the roof of the Notre Dame Centre overlooks Eastern Jerusalem – a powerful and coherent image fraught with historical and contemporary associations. It usually serves as a background to the Guesthouse’s restaurant, so we look at it without seeing or dwelling on its details and significance. The sound works exhibited on the terrace address this state of amplified image, and create moments of attention.

The sound works are available for free download via smartphones.

Assistant curator: Gali Faber

About the Notre Dame Center

The Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center is located on the road connecting the Eastern and the Western city. The center was established in the 1880s by the directors of the French Catholic Assumptionists order, with the aim of housing the thousands of French pilgrims who arrived in the city. The statue placed between the two turrets in front of the building is a replica of the French statue “Notre Dame de France” (1860) located in the city Puy-en-Velay, for the making of which Napoleon conceded to melt the iron of 213 Russian canons.
The south wing of the building was bombarded in 1948 and became an IDF guard post in the battle with Jordan. Many refugees were housed in the buildings’ north wing and for several years, until 1967, the place served as temporary housing for the students of the Hebrew University. In 1972 the building was reinstated as a pilgrimage center after it underwent restoration, reconstruction, and expansion. In 1978 Pope John Paul II issued a decree which established it as a pontifical institute and an ecumenical holy place, “as a place of fruitful spiritual development.” Today the structure encompasses a guesthouse, a pastoral center, Our Lady of Peace Chapel, a conference center, restaurants, and a permanent exhibition on the Shroud of Turin.
In the 1990s, 207 glass plates were found in the underground parking of the Notre Dame Center, bearing photographic portraits of different, unrelated, people. The mystery was solved in 2011, when it was discovered that the negatives belonged to Elizabeth Varkoni and Eliahu Romanov, who initiated and operated a business of restoring and reprinting photographs for refugees from different countries, who lived in the surrounding transit camps. The two gained the permission to use the monastery’s underground parking as a photo lab from a prelate in the monetary, providing they will photograph the pilgrims arriving to Mass, and sell them their photographs when they leave the place.

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