How Strange the Dream Was: A Tribute to Nurit Zarchi

The exhibition brings together prints and original works by members of the Ilu collective, created in response to the world of the writer Nurit Zarchi. Her writing for children and adults moves between reality and imagination and unfolds complex states of mind that are surprising, wistful, funny, and full of wonder, expressed with rare freedom of expression and deep human sensitivity.

The Ilu collective is an illustration gallery and a cooperative initiative of illustrators from northern Israel. The gallery, the only one of its kind in Israel, was founded out of a desire to promote and expose contemporary Israeli illustration to broad audiences, and serves as an independent platform for artistic discourse on illustration as a living, renewing, and dynamic genre. This tribute exhibition, first presented at the Ilu Gallery, has arrived to Jerusalem and invites the public to return and dive into the dream.