The Hold: a luggage hold: a space to store luggage in transit.
The Hold: a hug: the way a person holds another person with are.
The Hold: a community: the way we hold each other’s stories, fears, challenges, joy, and love.
The Hold is the product of two workshops, bringing together a diverse group of individuals of all ages living in Yorkshire. Our group represented people from across the globe, including Syria, Afghanistan, Argentina, Kurdistan, and Ukraine, alongside the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
Led by Memorial Gestures artist-in-residence, Chebo Roitter Pavez, and in collaboration with 6 Million +, we created a bridge across continents and generations, fostering hopes for safety and peace for all.
Our first workshop, Give Someone the Hiccups, focused on how we remember loved ones. Using interviews and artifacts from the Holocaust Centre North Archive, we shared our journeys of connection and remembrance.
Our second workshop, The Weird, Wonderful, Funny, and Strange of Living in Yorkshire, England, explored our varied perspectives on life in Yorkshire. We also reflected on the experiences of the Holocaust survivors featured in our exhibition and shared stories of homes here, homes before, and our hopes for coming together as a community.
About 6 Million + Charitable Trust :
6 Million + is a creative arts project, working with an extended family of refugees and local communities in Kirklees. They express stories of the Holocaust, genocides and contemporary persecution at home and abroad, creating temporary art installations, performances, and events.
About Chebo Roitter Pavez:
Sebastian “Chebo” Roitter Pavez is a visual artist, graphic designer, writer, and publisher from Buenos Aires. The central question of his work lies in the relationship between images, text, and the mechanism for truth construction. His work intertwines images and documents from the public domain within forgotten histories, and apocryphal traditions, creating speculative objects, inviting new conversations around cultural heritage management, and challenging art’s function in public spaces.
Chebo is the co-director of artist-run publishing house, Bucle Editorial. Find out more here.
Preview a sample of the zine below:
Product Details:
- Publisher: Holocaust Centre North
- Published: January 2025
- Product Type: Zine
- Length: 42 pages