Des Wortes Hall

This collection supports and promotes awareness to the important mission and framework of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition's focus on the lasting power of the written word and the arts in support of the free expression of ideas, the preservation of shared cultural spaces, and the importance of responding to attacks, both overt and subtle, on artists, writers, and academics working under oppressive regimes or in zones of conflict, despite the destruction of that literary/cultural content.

Rosa Gabriel, a member of the Federal Association of Exponents of Fine Art, has for several years used fragments of worn-out Scriptures (Christian Bibles and Hebrew Pentateuchs) in her works, interweaving them with her own woodcuts (similar to Arabic calligraphy). The resulting interwoven works are both a symbol for the interconnections implicit in a shared cultural history and for the stalemate in resolving disputes. Gabriel has had solo exhibitions at galleries and Fine Arts Societies in Germany, Netherlands, Austria, France and Bulgaria, and has participated in exhibitions in Germany, Japan, Korea, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Finland, Switzerland, Lithuania, Belgium, Poland, England and Bulgaria.