Today
(20 September), the exhibition "She's Gone" by Israeli artist Keren
Yehezkeli Goldstein, which shows garments of women who were murdered by
their partners or relatives, opened at the United Nations in Geneva. The
installation is located in front of the Human Rights Council Chamber
and aims at raising awareness on the shocking phenomenon of femicide, in
order to increase efforts by countries to fight against violence
against women.
The
important discussions at the UN take place in "laboratory conditions"
and are often out of touch with reality. The chilling installation
"She's Gone" is a painful reminder of everything that remains to be done
to prevent violence against women and the murder of the next victim, in
any culture and anywhere in the world.
The
exhibition is organized by the Israeli Mission to the UN in Geneva,
together with the Greek Mission and the Cyprus Mission. It presents
garments of victims from the three countries, and, for the first time,
also clothes of victims from Trinidad and Tobago and the USA. The
women's clothes are shown, while in the background you can read and
learn about the story of the victims' lives and deaths, and lullabies in
different languages are played in the background.
Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's Ambassador to the UN in Geneva: "We
should not rest until femicide becomes a crime of the past. An
international social effort is required to eradicate violence against
women and achieve gender equality. This is a priority Israel is
committed to, both domestically and internationally."
Artist Keren Yehezkeli Goldstein: "I
embarked on this journey five years ago.I believed that the garments I
collected mark the end of the silenced global epidemic of violence
against women. Involuntarily, I became a spokesperson for dead women
whose voices were silenced by violence and cruelty. My life's mission is
now to make their voices heard on every possible platform and to call
for immediate, determined and unequivocal actions in order to eradicate
violence against women."
ENDS
ABOUT SHE’S GONE
The installation was launched in 2017, at the official residence of
then-Israeli president Reuven Rivlin and his wife, the late Mrs. Nechama
Rivlin, who hosted the installation along with the victims’ families.
The project was exhibited in the Israeli parliament, in police force
headquarters, government institutions, universities, and cultural
centers across the country, as well as in Vienna, Geneva, Washington DC,
Athens, Nicosia among other places.
She’s gone website: 
https://www.shesgone.org/en/home
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