She’s gone Exhibition

Ilse was a talented and charismatic woman. She served as mayor of the municipality of Aalst and raised campaigns over the years for female empowerment. Her motto wשs always “because people are important”. A love story that began during Covid cost her her life and she was murdered in her sleep with brutal hammer blows. She left behind two beautiful sons and a heartbroken mother. This is her favorite shirt, transparent in body color and a delicate, soft matching skirt. This is how her life ended, and her clothes now hang silently in Brussels, alongside the other victims at the event initiated by the Israeli Embassy in Belgium.

She’s gone Exhibition

On International Women’s Day we witness a very bad year for women. On the battlefields around the world, women were abandoned to their fate, raped, kidnapped, beaten and murdered. From Ukraine to Gaza, sexual crimes have again become a weapon of war, in Iran the hijab protest was suppressed with great violence and there too, if you removed the hijab, your sentence is death. Very little has been achieved, and a lot of pain and sadness, but we must look ahead, create a front of solidarity of women and men all over the world whose purpose is to stop female oppression. And let’s start with this, to return the 17 abductees home.

She’s gone Exhibition

The exhibition opened in the building of the National Library of Bucharest. Outside the river flows, people fill the cafes, and on the hangers hang there are clothes of women who were and are no longer. 23 women - Jewish, Muslim, and Christian who share a common cruel fate and only their beautiful faces look at us from the photos in the exhibition.