Manshia Project with kids

With the help of soccer field marking equipment, Ronen Eidelman marks out the grid of streets and houses of the Manshia Quarter. The Manshia Quarter is buried deep beneath the grassy lawns of Charles Clore Park. It was established in the seventies of the nineteenth century as a Muslim suburban neighborhood of Jaffa. After 1948, Jewish immigrants, most of whom were Holocaust survivors, came to the quarter which had been destroyed during its occupation by Etzel. In the middle of the sixties the quarter was totally demolished and in its stead the Charles Clore Park was built.
Eidelman brings the streets and houses of Manshia up to the surface. The white lines delineate the quarter that lies under the grassy lawns of Charles Clore Park -- the streets and buildings -- the ghost of Manshia. The markings, made with white lines, are reminiscent of police markings at a murder scene, in this case the murder of the houses, the architectural murder, the cultural murder of Jaffa. At the same time he speaks in the language of soccer and the lawns of the park and the current use of it nowadays. The lines in the soccer field are quite clear; however they do not interfere with the traffic. Similar to the borders of the soccer field, Eidelman redefines the boundaries of the Manshia Quarter without constituting an obstacle or hindering the present day life that continues to carry on in Charles Clore Park; he only made a mark that must be taken into consideration.

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• aviv
• palestine
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