The Days of Sadat | Hagai Farago

Curator: Sofie Berzon MacKie

Curatorial assistant: Tal Simon

Winner of Be'eri Gallery Art Award #3 at Fresh Paint Art Fair. The prize is awarded  annually by Be'eri Gallery's curatorial team, to an artist selected from the Fresh Paint Greenhouse. This marks the prize's third year. 

On November 19, 1977, at 20:06, Egypt's president, Anwar Sadat, landed in Israel. He was the first Arab leader to formally visit the country. Following the Yom Kippur War,  Saadat made three presidential visits, paving the way towards a peace agreement with  Egypt and declaring that the conflict between the states and the Middle East would  not be resolved by force, but rather through peaceful means. His visits built a bridge  to an enemy state, whose history is closely intertwined with that of the state of Israel  and its…